Subject: WOS BirdBox June 19 - June 25, 2001
Date: Jun 25 15:33:21 2001
From: Franny Drobny - fdrobny at cairncross.com


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June 21, 2001, Thursday, 11:59 a.m. Paul Hicks here. Number (360)
264-2462. Reporting for Wednesday, June 20, an AMERICAN REDSTART east of
Tenino. From Tenino go eastbound on Highway 507 towards Rainier. No more
than a mile past the city limits, turn left on Mull Road. To the right it's
called Church Hill. Cross the bridge across the wetlands and go to the
trees on the north side and continue looking to the north extremity of that
line of trees. It should be in there along with YELLOW WARBLERS. Good
luck. Good birding.

June 21, 2001, Thursday, 9:00 p.m. Hi, Tom Aversa here reporting on a field
trip down to the Ridgefield area in southwestern Washington with Steve
Gerstle. Today at the refuge at the River S Unit, there were at least 3
BLACK TERNS still present. Also, at least 7 BLACK-NECKED STILTS, four of
which were defensively attacking a RED-TAILED HAWK. It sort of indicated
they were probably chicks around. Also, a pair of CASSIN'S VIREOS in the
entrance to the refuge, which were kind of locally uncommon. At Vancouver
Lake, there were 30 WHITE PELICANS and 20 CLARK'S GREBES. Also, a
medium-sized small TERN, which was probably a FORSTER'S TERN. Two GREATER
YELLOW-LEGS down at Post Office Lake further down the lower river road in
the Vancouver lowlands.

June 22, 2001, Friday, 7:54 a.m. Paul Hicks here, (360) 264-2462, reporting
on Thursday morning. A follow-up to yesterday's message about the AMERICAN
REDSTART near Tenino. This is a female and today observed co-nesting with a
male YELLOW WARBLER, and so I marked a spot at the edge of the road with a
stack of two large rocks. If you stand there and look up kind of into a
window with some bare branches showing, look for movement and you'll see the
nest, and both birds were there, and very much in close company with each
other. That's it. Good luck. Good birding.

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