Hi tweets,

After a summer break, I went yesterday for my first lunchtime walk around
the museum of Anthropology at UBC, Vancouver.
Astonished to find Dark-eyed Juncos already back in the bushes between the
libraries. And, there was also a flycatcher I would call a Willow
Flycatcher - I have seen them 3 or 4 times this summer, and they seem to
me rather distinctive (as distinctive as flycatcher go anyway). Is there
somewhere a great caveat about them?

Other sightings: A Western Wood-peewee down at the gravel parking lot W of
Cecil Green; a Pileated Woodpecker flying over the Rose Garden; and 2 or 3
seals doing dolphin imitations off Point Grey.
BTW, the whole area looks very different from spring - dry grass and ripe
choke cherries.
The List:
Double-crested Cormorant
Gull sp. (California or Ring-billed)
Glaucous-winged Gull
Rock Dove
Pileated Woodpecker
Steller's Jay
NW Crow
Barn Swallow (many - probably + other species)
Western Wood-peewee
Willow Flycatcher (?)
Cedar Waxwing
Black-capped Chickadee
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Am.Robin
Starling
Song Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
House Finch
House Sparrow
19 species

Reto Riesen
Dept. Chem., UBC
Vancouver, B.C.
riesenr at chem.ubc.ca