Hi Tweets,

So, Jim Elder's been lurking in my local patch eh? The
Lazuli Bunting(s) he reports is very close to where I work.
Since last Wednesday, while working in the garden behind our
warehouse, I've heard a Lazuli Bunting singing. It took me
several days to figure out what it was though, since I've never
actually seen the bird. It sings on the south side of the river-
bank and I haven't actually gone out there with my bins to look
for it (I have trouble enough justifying the amount of time
I spend in the garden ;), instead of chained to my desk).

I heard the bird today, and stopped at the Kent Ponds
Monday where I saw and heard the one that Patrick Sullivan
reported a week or so ago. If you look South from the hike/bike
path along the Southern border of the ponds, look just to
the East of the Advo warehouse (further East of the two ware-
houses). There is a row of conifers between the trail and the
warehouse which give way to some cottonwoods on their East end.
The bunting was singing from the top of a snag-topped, twin
cottonwood. This isn't far from where they used to be seen
in years past, before the reshaping of the ponds.

Jim Flynn
Renton, WA
bf519 at scn.org