Subject: Nisqually Delta
Date: Mar 25 19:13:46 2000
From: Tom Foote - footet at elwha.evergreen.edu




Tweets--

went out for a quickie at the Delta today..

on the way there on heading north on I-5 just before
the last overpass before the Marvin Road turn off there's
a skinny, dead fir which is the favorite perch for a big
female redtail.. today lover boy was at her side..they
were not much more than a foot apart on the same branch...

butter butts all over the place.. some bushtits, Song
Sparrows singing on territory, and the usual suspects.

saw a bird flick in the brush across from a bench I was
sitting on along the river, so I got the bins searching
and a full blown male Rufous hummer nearly knocked my
eyes out in direct sunlight..his gorget looked black in
the reflected light... stunning bird.

the big painted turtle was out on a log in the Ring
Dike area...(and another smaller one as well)

Jim Pruske said he saw a Harlans there the other day.
It apparently hangs out somewhere along the river
between the Ring Dike and the Observation Tower on
the river trail. I didn't see it.

Spring is certainly happening around here.


Tom


Tom Foote footet at elwha.evergreen.edu
Lab II
The Evergreen State College (360) 866-6000 x6118
Olympia, WA 98505