Subject: Nisqually N.W.R.
Date: Nov 9 22:35:58 2001
From: Ronald Simcox - feathered.friend at worldnet.att.net
Tweeters. The Mrs. and I did a three hour mosey between the visitor center
and the trail to McAllister Creek on 9 Nov. 36 bird species. The best: a
lifer for the Mrs., a Merlin; The most suprising: at #35 a briefly
glimpsed small flock of "sparrows" landing in the field across the trail
from (N. of) what we've come to call Gull Pond (oh yeah, I nearly forgot. 33
Dunlin on the ponds edge tryin' to sleep amid the ever shuffeling gulls)
which caused a closer look since I couldn't think of any time I've seen an
in-unison moving flock of migrating sparrows. Scoped a better view of what
turned out to be Am. Pipits. Had never seen them at Nisqually in the 15
years I've been birding there, though retrospectivly that field looked ideal
for them. A Yellow Rumped Warb. and a Yellowthroat were in the brush about
3/4 of the way to the creek as well as a Lincoln Sparrow and a singing bird
which I had to ID mostly from my wifes & field guide descriptions because my
poor hearing is currently compounded by an inner ear infection (now there's
some "birding" info the "fill-in" list owner can edit out!) but concluded it
was a Fox Sparrow, one of which we had seen moments earlier. Ron Simcox,
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