Subject: Re: Bonanza on yardbirds:
Date: Mar 8 16:30:09 1998
From: "Ruth Sullivan" - GODWIT at worldnet.att.net




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> From: Ruth Sullivan <GODWIT at worldnet.att.net>
> To: tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Bonanza on yardbirds:
> Date: Sunday, March 08, 1998 10:20 AM
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> Hello tweeters,
> After spending saturday Birding with Jerry and Sandy Converse from
Mason
> to King County, chasing after long-billed Dowitchers, with no avail.We
did
> get the nimia Eurasian form Green-winged Teal at the Kent Ponds, also the
> Hybred Ross versa Snow Goose in Kent.Comming Home tired and hungry around
> 3.30 in the afternoon, we got greeted by a flock of 25 Band-tailed
Pigeons
> high perched in the Birch tree.[we have theme often feeding on unsalted
> Peanut's as high numbers as 60 sometimes} Looking in our back yard, it
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> Bonanza !!!!!!!!T The yard was bussy with running Juncos, scratching Fox
> Sparrows, Spotted-Towhees, Varied Thruses and Song Sparrows.Flying from
> Trees to Feeders and Suet where Red-breasted Nuthatches Chickadees
Kinglets
> and a agressive lone Steller'sJay made himself loudly known.We watched
> this Activety of feeding Birds for about 35 minutes going from one to
> onother window facinated by all this bussy feeding frenzy.We this put new
> Suet out bevore we left in the morning, all the Suet Feeders was occupied
> by Downy Woodpeckers Flicker and Bewick's Wren, what got chased of by
> Chickadees and Red-breasted Nuthatches.One Bird was missing, the Rufous
> Hummingbird, which din't arrive yet, when always comes when our first
bush
> of Wild Currant is blooming, what happen last week.Any day we expect to
> seeing this most wanted Bird back now. This like Phil Kelly, we got our
> Hummingbird Feeder hanging sice ende January in hope to attract an Annas
> Hummingbird.
> Birds sighted,
> Band-tailed Pigeon 25
> Northern Flicker 1
> Downy Woodpecker 4
> Steller's Jay 1
> Black-capped Chickadee 6
> Chestnut-backed Chickadee 4
> Red-breasted Nuthatch 3
> Bewick's Wren 1
> Golden-crowned Kinglet 2
> Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
> Varied Thrush 2 male & female
> American Robin 1
> Spotted Towhee 2
> Dark-eyed Junco 20
> Fox Sparrow 2
> Song Sparrow 1
> House Finch 25
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