Tweets,
This morning popped down to the fill and found quite a few interesting
things around. There were 3 Greater-white Fronted Geese (2 juv.,1 ad), 8
Cackling forms of the Canada Goose, 1 Canada Goose with a neck band of
027T, 2 Pipits. Despite massive removal of much of the blackberries
sparrow numbers still seemed strong, though not if they continue to remove
the blackberries! I had 25-30 White-crowns, 10-15 Golden-crowns and 1
Lincoln's.
The biggest suprise of all were two quite common birds, on
other parts of the campus but quite unusual in my experience at the fill:
3 Steller's Jays at the main pond in the eastern shore willows (Only ever
seen Steller's once before at the fill) and perhaps even more suprising
was a single Red-breasted Nuthatch in the Cottonwoods along the extreme
eastern border of the fill, next to CUH (first time I've ever seen/heard
this species at the fill).

Scott Downes
sdownes at u.washington.edu
Seattle WA

"Birds don't read the bird books. (That's why they are seen doing things
they are not suppossed to do)." -Mary Wood