During the period September 13-15, 1999 I was up in the Bella
Coola/Hagensborg area teaching another wildlife/danger tree assessors
course.

I found the birds surprisingly sparsely distributed - almost to the point
that I thought there may be no birds in the area. I did manage to
eventually find a few things - nothing startling however.

In Hagensborg on September 13 were:
3 CROWS - I suspect that they were hybrid American/Northwestern as the
calls seemed to be intermediate between the two species. I had the same
impression last time I visited the area. Anyone have insights into this.
Any readers in western Washington will probably just chuckle and say so
what - "all our crows are like that" Oh, well.
1 YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER - MYRTLE. I'm interested in knowing where the
Alaska Myrtles are crossing over to the coast - there are very few people
reporting along the north coast, so it's still a mystery.
2 TOWSEND'S WARBLERS

Up the Nusatsum River (just east of Hagensborg) on September 15 were:
2 GRAY JAYS
6 STELLER'S JAYS
2 CHESTNUT-BACKED CHICKADEES
1 BROWN CREEPER
2 WINTER WRENS
2 TOWNSEND'S WARBLERS
1 MACGILLIVRAY'S WARBLER
6 RED CROSSBILLS (the little ones)

There were a few other species here and there, but the grand total was not
over 20 species for the three days.

Michael G. Shepard
Victoria, BC
mgs at orcatec.com