Dear Tweeters,

Having returned late Monday night from a ski-and-snowshoe weekend, and
getting off to teach school early Tuesday morning, I am just now posting a
few birds of interest in the Twisp- Wintrop area I observed over the
Presidents' Day Weekend.
There were 7 Snow Buntings just outside Winthrop on the road to Sun Mt.
Lodge. Approximately 200 Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch were on the approach road
to Lake Pearrygin State Park north of Winthrop. On the back road from
Wintrop to Twisp near the turn-off to Bear Creek Road there was a flock of 60
Common Goldfinch with 15 Common Redpoll, also a N. Pygmy-Owl in the same
general area. In Twisp there were approximately 350 Bohemian Waxwing feeding
on fruit in a suburban area on the southwest side of SR 20 just out of the
city center. A Townsend's Solitaire up the West Chewuch River Road at the
turn-off to Buck Mt. and a White-breasted Nuthatch in downtown Winthrop
completed the birds of interest in the area. A Merlin of the "richardsonii"
race was at Lemoine. The same bird or a similar one was there on this same
weekend last year. Beautiful light-blue mantle, it was a very different
looking Merlin! If anyone wants more detail you can reach me at :
<geopandion at aol.com>
tele: 206-842-8138

George Gerdts
Bainbridge Island, WA