Columbia Estuary Report - 05/31/1999

Arrivals this week include WESTERN WOOD PEWEE and WILLOW FLYCATCHERS.

A big movement of YELLOW WARBLERS pushed through over the weekend,
including the first females. Female WILSON'S WARBLERS have also
arrived in numbers.

There are now at least 5 PURPLE MARTINS at the Hammond boat basin.

There are still very few PACIFIC-SLOPE FLYCATCHERS calling in the area
which seems curious. Singing BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAKS have also mysteriously
disappeared.

--
Mike Patterson I don't swear for the hell of it.
Astoria, OR Language is a poor enough means of communication
mpatters at orednet.org and we've got to use all the words we've got....
Besides, there are damn few words anybody understands
Henry Drummond in "Inherit the Wind"

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