Subject: Fw: BOWERMANand TUFTED DUCK:
Date: Apr 2 19:27:24 2000
From: Ruth Sullivan - godwit at worldnet.att.net




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> From: Ruth Sullivan <godwit at worldnet.att.net>
> To: tweeter at u.washington.edu
> Subject: BOWERMANand TUFTED DUCK:
> Date: Sunday, April 02, 2000 5:49 PM
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> Hello Tweeters,
> After meeting Greg and Tammy Pelletier at the" Black Lake Meadows"in
> Olympia where we quick checked the ponds before driving on to Bowerman
> Basin.All the many Swallow houses seems already taken,by most now Tree
> Swallows.Few houses had both species are fighting over the Houses the
House
> Sparrows.
> I will make this message short.We did not finding the Tufted Duck as
> expected on Saturday,but wittnessed one of this breeding displays of the
> male Rufous Hummigbird. He was flying high in to the air and dive the
speed
> of a Falcon streight down.This went on for at least seven times. I only
saw
> this mating behavier in the wild twice,but wittnessed this many times
here
> where there feeding on my patio.
> Highlights on this trip where as follow :
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> Bowerman Basin
> 3 White -fronted Goose
> 8Yellow rumped Warbler (Myrtle )
> 2 Pied -billed Grebes
> 1 Rough-legged Hawk
> 1 male Rufous Hummingbird.
> 3 Virginia -Rails calling
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> At the Chehalis Schouweiler:
> 3 Pied -billed Grebes
> 7 Common Snipes
> Large flock of Yellow-rumped Warblers (Myrtel)
> 6 Ring-necked Ducks
> Mud Bay Madrona Drive:
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> 17 Greater Yellowlegs
> 1 Spotted Sandpiper
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> Great weather with great company!!!!
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> Ruth Sullivan
> Tacoma
> godwit at worldnet.att.net
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