Subject: must be spring
Date: Apr 1 08:44:55 2002
From: Paul Moorehead - pjm at sos.net
Tweets,
Went walking this morning to hear if the orange-crowned warblers had
returned to their territories and was not disappointed. As I was
listening for the warbler I noticed a female red crossbill pulling moss
off trunk of a serviceberry while a male crossbill foraged at the top of
a tall doug fir prying cones open. The sound of detritus falling on the
salal below alerted me to his activity.
A female rufous hummer is already on eggs. I am amazed where they put
their nests; in this case, towards the tip of a long cedar limb about
twenty feet from the ground.
Band-tailed pigeons are cooing and foraging in the hemlocks. I guess
they are eating the new growth buds or hemlock seeds.
Happy April,
Paul
Paul Moorehead
Guemes, WA