More construction, trees taken out, but new green space growing in and
fuzzing up.

Managed to spend a few minutes at North Seattle Community College this
afternoon. Most notable birds:

YELLOW WARBLER
pair of WESTERN TANAGERS, we've got cottonwoods, nest nest
DOWNY WOODPECKER (first sighting in 12 months there, hurray)
CEDAR WAXWINGS, a whole waggle of them

and I was standing in a brushy area and a couple of black-capped
chickadees were waiting to fed the youngsters and I was too close to the
nest. I was going to be a good neighbor and move my body, when one of them
flew right past me and into the small tree in front of me, mouth full of
grubs (the bird not the tree).

Once it left i looked around the other side and voila a hole, a nest.

The tree was broken at about six feet height and about 45 degrees from
vertical and resting on other
trees. The hole was on the trunk just below the break, probably pecked out
by woodpeckers. The tree was still alive but barely. the hole was about
six feet off the ground.

What is amazing to me, is that the trunk is about
only 4 inches inches in diameter, not a big tree.

But from our nest box at home, it appears chickadees like close company.
It is hard to imagine 3-4 fluff babies and two parents in that box at
night.

Douglas F. Daily
Seattle WA 98195