Subject: Re: Just got back and ------
Date: Jan 5 07:56:44 1998
From: "Ruth Sullivan" - GODWIT at worldnet.att.net
What a beautiful story, it would also made Best Christmas Gift ever.Thank
you for sharing this with other Birdres.
Ruth
GODWIT at worldnet.att.net
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> From: John C. Miller <jmiller at uidaho.edu>
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: Re: Just got back and ------
> Date: Monday, January 05, 1998 7:08 AM
>
> Just got back to my office after two weeks and had 510 Tweeters'
messages. It
> was great finding out what happened with the CBC 's and new year's
sightings..
>
> Now for what I think is something special --- This Christmas there were
six
> Western Bluebirds in Spokane. About five years ago I worked closely with
the
> County of Spokane to establish a Bluebird trail on the Spokane County
North
> Landfill that had recently closed and covered. That area of Spokane had
> thousand of Bluebirds in the 1930's, but people had driven then out.
Some of
> our efforts to reestablish the Bluebird in the past had met with little
> success. The openness of the Landfill provided good hunting for several
> families over the past five years. The family units have raised and
fledged
> over 130 young in some twenty nest sites.
>
> Well, Christmas Day the Bluebirds paid a special visit to the caretaker
of the
> trail and his family. Their house borders the Landfill and he has a key
that
> allows him to check the boxes in the spring and summer. This Christmas
morning
> he and his family were treated to six Western Blue's on their deck. What
a
> special Christmas!!!!!!.
>
> Many people reported the late leaving of the Western Bluebird from the
Spokane
> area this year. I had several in Moscow up until November 6th.
>
> Keep on Looking Up,
>
> John C. Miller
> Department of Animal and Veterinary Science
> University of Idaho