Hi folks -

Since the Natural Resources Building in Olympia is still closed to us
state-worker types, I spent the morning bird banding. Picked up a few
juncos, a female ruby-crowned kinglet, and a couple song sparrows (one of
which had a fairly large cloacal protuberence, indicating that the
breeding-season juices have started flowing...).

One of the Oregon juncos I netted was a recapture of a bird banded 20 August
2000 by Don Norman et al. at the MAPS (Monitoring Avian Productivity and
Survivorship) station at Johnson Marsh on Fort Lewis. This site is about
3.5 miles NE of Roy in Pierce County, and is about 20 miles east of my home
in west Olympia.

This recovery is not quite as neat as when Russell Rogers, south of
Tumwater, caught one of Don's juncos that was banded in Shoreline, up near
the Snohomish-King Co. line, but it's pretty cool.....

Jon. Anderson
Olympia, Washington
festuca at olywa.net