Subject: mystery bird
Date: Oct 9 19:31:40 1999
From: Ruth Sullivan - godwit at worldnet.att.net


Hi Rahne,
Look at a female Golden-crown Kinglet.There are usual verry tame.

Ruth Sullivan
Tacoma
godwit at worldnet.att.net

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> From: Rahne Kirkham <rahne at mindspring.com>
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: mystery bird
> Date: Saturday, October 09, 1999 6:56 PM
>
> Help, o tweeters, help. I was walking my dog among some tall douglas firs
> near my apartment in Federal Way, a rather woodsy complex when I was
> surprised to see a flock of tiny little birds, one of whom was only about
> three feet from me and looking at me without a speck of fear. He was
bushtit
> size and gray but with a tiny tail, a white eyebrow and a white stripe on
> the crown of his head! He and his friends made little peepy noises not
> unlike bushtits but what to make of his unusual (for a bushtit) markings?
> What is he? Who is he? Should I invite him in for tea?
> Rahne Kirkham
> Federal Way, Washington
> rahne at mindspring.com
> "Dum Vivimus Vivamus"