Hello Tweets,

My mother and I observed the CLAY-COLORED SPARROW at the previous location
SE of the Woodinville- Duvall and W Snoqualmie Valley Rd. intersection in a
group of hedgerows, just E of the first gravel pull-off on the left as you
travel south past the intersection. We parked at this pull-off, and
proceeded to search the hedges over, until we briefly observed the bird at
10:15am along the creek that flows east with hedges bordering it. The bird
probably moves around with other sparrows, but we saw it alone. Other
notable species in the area included: 1 W.T. Sparrow, 2 Am. Pipits,and 1
Hairy Woodpecker (wooded area on the west side of Snoqualmie Valley Rd.).
We travelled north to the Two Rivers WMA south of Monroe, where we spent 3
hours searching through the large blackbird flocks using our spotting scope
as well as our binoculars, as the birds perched high in the alder and
cottonwood trees most of the time, coming down to feed in the corn fields
occasionly, where we observed mainly Red-wings, with a few Brewer's and
B.H. Cowbirds, but NO Rusty! The birds would come and go about every 20
min., with the presence of an adult Cooper's Hawk that scattered the flocks
around the area. The Rusty probably also moves around from flock to flock
or by itself, which would be easier to ID. We did observe a HARRIS' SPARROW
in hedges that surround the large lone maple in the west corn field, which
later flew in a small flock of W.C. Sparrows to the west into hedgerows
bordering the fence line. Other notable species at this location were: 1
M.Dove, 4 V.Thrushes, 4 Bald Eagles, and 1 R.N. Duck.

Ruth and Patrick Sullivan
GODWIT at worldnet.att.net