Subject: Quick trip to the clearcut
Date: Apr 19 19:59:31 1998
From: Eric Kraig - kraig at wln.com



I grabbed an hour to go birding Saturday in the big clearcut north of the
Thurston County Landfill. I got there after 10:00, so I may have missed a
few things that might have stopped singing, like MacGillivray's Warbler,
not a one? Quite a few more than one White-crowned Sparrow - they and the
Common Yellowthroats were thick in the broom. Vesper Sparrows are back - I
counted three singing males, all battling out over one small patch of
grass. I saw six Chipping Sparrows as well. Three Orange-crowned Warblers
were in the oaks south of the clearcut, along with a Hutton's Vireo. A
male harrier was doing a roller-coaster sort of flight, where he'd shoot
almost straight up, appear to stall, and then swoop back down. The two
females nearby seemed unimpressed...

Eric Kraig
Olympia, WA
kraig at wln.com