On Thu, 13 May 1999, Pharris Nicholas J wrote:


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First, a quick note about Olympia geography for those of you who might
Olympia, WA, sits at the southern end of Puget Sound, which is basically
a large fjord carved out by glaciers during the last ice age.

Tweets--

And, since we're on the subject of birding in Olympia

My wife and I were driving down 4th St hill (known to the locals
as "Hospital Hill" and as we got to the bottom, I noticed these
two crows pitching up and butting each other breast to breast..
hm-mmmmm, I thought..not seen this behavior before, but it is
Spring, after all..they did this about 3 or 4 times before it
occurred to me to direct my gaze downward..there was a big
shape on the top of the utility pole..it was back lit and I
couldn't ID it right away..as we turned right and went down over
the 5th Ave bridge I looked back and saw an adult bald eagle
sitting there. I announced that and turned back to pay attention
to my driving when my wife said, "there's another one on the
next pole." As soon as I could I glanced back and sure enough
two adult bald eagles sitting on adjacent poles on the far
end of the bridge close to hill and away from downtown. I've
never seen them in this close...(well, except for the two chasing
each other through the firs in my back yard a couple of years ago..)

I got home..sat down with a cup of tea and a lot of action in the
trees off my deck revealed Townsend's Warblers, Western Tanangers,
butter butts... and the usual suspects (both chicadees, a pair
of song sparrows and a towhee..)

Tom