We have started to see some migrants moving through the Heather Meadows
area at Mt. Baker while some of the summer residents are still around.
On Monday, I saw a couple of Three-toed woodpeckers, unusual for this
far west in the North Cascades. I have only seen them one other time
there in midwinter. The rufous hummingbirds disappeared a couple of
weeks ago, early for most summers, but the Vaux's and Black swifts,
swallows, and dippers are still around, and some warblers have begun to
come through. It has been a very active year at Heather Meadows for the
Red-Breasted Sapsuckers with many juvenile birds around. No water birds
yet which are the most common fall migrants through the alpine lakes.

Phil Wegener
Bellingham, WA
mailto: philpamweg at juno.com
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