Dear Tweeters,

Today on the Satsop CBC, 1/3/99, a Northern Mockingbird was found in Elma by
Bruce LaBar, Bruce Fischer, Jim Flynn and myself. It was seen at the SW
corner of the town of Elma (Delorme Pg. 61 West of Olympia) at 1410 W.
Waldrip Street. The bird was eating apples from a lone apple tree in the
front yard. There were also 2 W. Scrub Jays in the neighborhood along with
a large flock of zonotricia sparrows at a neighbors feeder. The bird was
seen at 9:30am.

A Clay-colored Sparrow was found with a flock of White- & Golden-crowned
Sparrows just south of Elma on North Blockhouse road. The bird was in a
blackberry thicket near the manure piles by the barn about 1/2 mile off of
Hwy 12, just past the railroad tracks. To find No. Blockhouse road, turn
south on Hwy 12 East at Elma, approximately 1 mile, the road will be on your
right and is signed (although it doesn't have a name in Delorme).

If you're in the area, it might be worth exploring the next road south,
Dunlap road. In the afternoon we had Merlin, American Kestrel, American and
Eurasian Wigeon, W. Meadowlark, Trumpeter and Tundra Swans.

Good Birding,
Marcus Roening Tacoma,WA
Glaxo Wellcome, MDR51044 at GlaxoWellcome.com