Hello Everyone,
A trek through the forest to the Sound discovered: A hoard of singing
Bewick's and Winter Wrens; Black-headed Grosbeaks everywhere; Song
Sparrows and Robins opera'ing from every convenient perch; flying-by and
loudly announcing Pileated Woodpeckers; a "chimping" female Wilson's
Warbler; "Butter-butts" (Yellow-rumped Warblers) warbling from the canopy;
serene and spiraling flute passages from the newly-arrived Swainson's
Thrushes; peering and sneaking and sometimes "su-wheeting" Pacific-slope
Flycatchers carrying hapless, caloric, insectoid sustenence to next
generation; parent Black-capped Chickadees being not so noisy; Spotted
Towhees invisible; a determined upwardly mobile Brown Creeper; several
fitz-bewing-it-for all-they've-got Willow Flycatchers; the golden-black-red
vision of a perfect male Western Tanager; Band-tailed Pigeons in smaller
flocks; Steller's Jays alarmed as usual; chittering and soaring
Violet-green Swallows around the various towers of our condo
complex (the swallows have been here for several weeks.......more arrived
recently). My words, the far too many of them and tediously punctuated,
cannot do justice for the forest music this morning. What a show!

Cheers and enjoy it all, me2

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Maureen Ellis, PhD, Research Scientist
Toxicology Group at Roos 1, 284A
Lab/Office phone: 206-685-1938
Dept of Environmental Health, Mailstop 354695
School of Public Health and Community Medicine
University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98115

Personal Financial Analyst
Primerica division of Citigroup, Inc.
VoiceTell: 206-213-7430

E-Mail: me2 at u.washington.edu
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