Subject: No Clay-colored Sparrow @ Oly Cheese Co
Date: May 17 09:01:02 1999
From: Eric Kraig - kraige at oclc.org


Jon Anderson wrote:

> This morning, Jerry Smith and I took a turn around the Scots'-Broom
> field back of the Olympia Cheese Co plant (north of the Marvin Road
> exit off I-5), for a morning of light birding and to see if the
> Clay-colored
> sparrow that'd been in the NE corner of the field for the last 2 years.
>

I know that the Clay-colored was out there in '95 and in '98, bur not '97?
If anyone knows otherwise, let me know.

> Also, saw the ubiquitous Brush Rabbit (Sylvilagus bachmani) as well
> as coyote tracks.

All you mammalogists out there, are these Brush Rabbits in lowland Thurston
County or Eastern Cottontails? I'd always assumed the latter (another
introduced species!) but would be pleased to learn that they were a native.
Whatever they are, "ubiquitous" is the word for them.

Any Lazuli Buntings out there, Jon?

Eric Kraig
Olympia, WA
kraige at oclc.org