hi scott,
i had my first hermit thrush in my yard yesterday,i locked up date from
last year, the first was on october 9 there feeding on the smal berrys of
the yu- tree.
ruth
GODWIT at worldnet.att.net
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> From: S. Downes <sdownes at u.washington.edu>
> To: tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Nisqually
> Date: Saturday, October 11, 1997 9:18 PM
>
> Tweets,
> Birded Nisqually today, and while the afternoon was quite the morning was
> full of suprises. Here it goes:
> At the parking lot at 7:45 am a Hermit thrush (seems early ?)
> Next we had a tree swallow at the twin barns, then a Ruffed Grouse on the
> East dike trail sitting in branches in the riparian area, first for
> nisqually for me! Next speaking of cackling geese there were between
60-70
> Cackling Geese among the standard Canadians. Next we had a Cliff Swallow
> fly over on the Ring-dike trail (seems extremely late???). The other
> notable goose for the day was a flock of 31 Greater-whitefronted Geese.
On
> the ring dike trail there was a bittern. Oh and as an afterthought, near
> where the ruffed grouse was a hybrid flicker (red shafted x
> yellow-shafted). Will try to get out and see remnants of the storm-petrel
> invasion tomorrow.
>
> Scott Downes
> sdownes at u.washington.edu
> Seattle WA
>
>