Hello Kraig,
I am glad you had the Blue Grouse at the Clear-Cut.And yes the Grouse will
going up in to trees.As we heared the Gouse drumming on the road ,we
followed the drumming,we was so close on to the grouse,but he went in to the
trees and we could not seeing it.The whole time we was standing there we
could never get a look at the grouse.Thanks to you directing us to this
place we had some verry good species of birds there including the
Clay -colored Sparrow.Besides collecting every year the earliest Dragonflie
the "California Darner" in our state.
----- Original Message -----
From: Kraig,Eric <kraige at oclc.org>
To: Tweeters at U. Washington. Edu (E-mail) <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 8:27 PM
Subject: Lacey clear-cut on Sunday


> Tweets,
>
> My wife and I did a quick loop around the cheese factory clear-cut in
Lacey
> on Sunday. We saw plenty of Chipping Sparrows, yellowthroats,
> Orange-crowned and MacGillivray's Warblers, tanagers, and the like. I was
> listening for, but didn't hear any Vesper Sparrows, although at least two
> were singing there earlier in the month. Lazuli Buntings don't appear to
> have arrived yet either.
>
> We spooked a pair of ravens from the trees at the entrance gate; they were
> in the same area when we came back out. More unusual, I thought, were the
> pair of Ospreys that flew up from the narrow strip of trees between the
> northern edge of the clear-cut and the golf course. Do they think there's
> fish in those water traps?
>
> Also in that strip of trees we heard and soon located a male Blue Grouse,
> hooting from a branch near the top of a fir. I wonder, do they call from
> the trees until a female appears, and then drop down to do the full
> tail-fanning, strutting display?
>
> No sign of the redtail pair that seemed to have the northeast corner of
the
> cut staked out a week or so ago. They, or another pair just like them,
> nested there up to 1997, but their nest blew down and I haven't seen them
as
> a pair the last two years. One of the pair is a large, striking
> rufous-to-dark phase bird, while the other is a typical light phase bird.
>
> Eric Kraig
> Olympia, WA
> mailto:kraige at oclc.org