Hello,
I read you saw a EASTERN KINGBIRD where you birded.Could you be more
pacific how and where and behavier you saw this EASTERN KINGBIRD. Usual the
Western Kingbirds are sighted first,what would be ende April.You mention
this bird so casual,as if there where common resident in you area.


Ruth Sullivan
Tacoma
godwit at worldnet.att.net




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> From: Gerald Hamilton <gerald at e-z.net>
> To: Wash. Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
> Subject: ......On a beautiful afternoon!!!!
> Date: Monday, April 17, 2000 7:15 PM
>
> ...............Sunday afternoon....Went for a walk down the railroad
> tracks and to the roads.....south and west by field, forest and wetlands
> near my home here in Brush Prairie(about 20 miles north of Portland.).
> ...............3 pairs of Canada Geese with 9 goslings by a pond.
> Red-wing Blackbirds everywhere. 3 Violet-green Swallows on a telephone
> wire.............A Lincoln's Sparrow; 1 Savannah Sparrow, and several
> Golden-crowned Sparrows in field and brush. A Mourning Dove and an
> Eastern Kingbird in a tree, with House Finches, Stellar's Jays and 2
> Scrub Jays flying through the air. Rufuus-sided Towhees everywhere, and
> several unidentified small grayish wren-sized birds seen in the
> brambles(...the "glimpse" was too fleeting!!!!).
> ...................2 Killdeer walking on the railroad tracks., and 2
> Chestnut-backed Chickadees and a House Sparrow flying around the
> cluttered area by the discount food store in Brush Prairie. 1 male
> Harrier Hawk and a Red-tail soaring overhead. Shovelers, Widgeons, and
> Mallards in the pond just south of mobile home park. Looked in the
> thickets along railroad tracks for Ruby-crowned Kinglets where I usually
> see them, but none there yesterday.
> ....................And then there were the hosts of several other
> "more mundane" songbirds (the "dime-a-dozen" variety!!). Yes....tis such
> a lovely afternoon it was.
>
> Gerald Hamilton
> Brush Prairie, Wash.
> gerald at e-z.net