Tweets,
Thought I'd drop a note of a nice sighting I had this morning. I had 27 Sandhill cranes fly overhead about 300-400 ft up, this morning. This was around rocky coulee, about a mile north of the Vantage Hwy in the Whiskey Dick Wildlife Area. Also had single ruby-crowned kinglet and golden-crowned kinglet foraging in the sage among the many White-crowned sparrows (100-175). While the Ruby-crowned isn't that surprising (I often see one on my study site every few days, this is the first Golden-crowned Kinglet I've seen since the winter out there, where I often would encounter flocks foraging in the sage. Then I stopped by my place for lunch and across the street (same area as the hoary was) had 2 Nashville Warblers and 2 Orange-crowned Warblers feeding in the tree.

Good Birding.

Scott Downes
downess at cwu.edu
Ellensburg WA