At 12:39 AM 5/5/97 +0100, Kelly wrote:

>Every since I heard of a supposed major decline in Western Meadowlarks in
>Oregon, I have paid particular notice of Western Meadowlarks here in western
>Washington: one in pastureland near the Black River, several at Glacial
>Heritage County Park farther down on the Black River, one near Hawk's Prairie
>restaurant in Lacey, and one on Thirteenth Division Prairie of Fort Lewis.
>I am still wondering where the decline has been observed within Oregon.
>
I don't know what the numbers were like before we moved there, but during
the five years or so we lived west of Eugene, I never saw or heard a single
Meadowlark.

Peggi
Ben & Peggi Rodgers
Aptos, CA (near Santa Cruz 122 W, 37 N)
USA
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