Subject: Re: They are appearing!
Date: Oct 1 20:17:46 1998
From: "Ruth Sullivan" - godwit at worldnet.att.net


Hello Tweeters,
I also had fall arrival yesterday in my yard
1 Hermit Thrush
12 Dark-eyed Juncos
2 Foxsparrow
3 Song Sparrow's
I din't see the first message about the Pileated Woodpecker.Was it rear
to find?
We had a pair nesting few houses down the street where i live here in
Fircrest.We live close to the Fircrest Town+Country Golf course. There been
seeing sometime here in the poplar trees.In the winter sometime there
comming also to feed on suet.
It's time to make some Suet again.
Ruth Sullivan

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> From: Birds Abundant <birdsabundant at sunshine.net>
> To: Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
> Subject: They are appearing!
> Date: Thursday, October 01, 1998 4:39 PM
>
> The fall birds are turning up in the yard in great abundance today with
our
> first rain in ages. ;
> Juncos... lots
> Song sparrows..... several
> Towhees....several
> Evening Grosbeaks ...several
> Robins...lots but now they have completely striped the mountain ash
> berries
> Pileated Woodpecker... one
> Band tailed Pigeon.....one
> Flickers...several
> Stellers Jays.....lots 6 to 12 around
> Starlings....several but less than we have had around.
> Crows.....3
>
> Out on the ocean in front the scoters , grebes and loons are
appearing
> and we have seen several bald eagles passing by.
> The Xantus' hummingbird has not been seen for about two weeks. Perhaps
she
> has gone or met her fate. She will be missed.
>
> Gerrie Patterson
> Gibsons, B.C.
> On the Sunshine Coast
> birdsabundant at sunshine.net
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