Subject: Lingering winter birds
Date: Apr 26 20:32:16 2002
From: Eugene Hunn - enhunn at attbi.com


Kelly and Tweets,

I've been hearing Varied Thrushes in my Lake Forest Park neighborhood all week. Also a couple pair of Red Crossbills that may be nesting.

Also, a UW campus first for me was the Hammond's Flycatcher I heard and saw (naked eye) beside the path down from Denny Hall toward Savery and the Quad.

Gene Hunn
enhunn at attbi.com.
----- Original Message -----
From: Kelly Cassidy
To: Tweeters
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 2:02 PM
Subject: Lingering winter birds


I mowed the lawn yesterday and it was teeming with birds today, maybe looking for chopped insect parts. Around lunch, I counted 4 robins, 3 juncos, 2 white-crowned sparrows, a song sparrow, a spotted towhee, and a varied thrush all foraging on the front lawn at the same time.

Most of those birds aren't surprising, but I thought the juncos had all moved on. The varied thrush was the real surprise. Shouldn't he be in the mountains by now? I heard a short, metallic varied thrush-like call this morning, thought "Naw, couldn't be; must be a starling or something," then there it was later today, skulking under the conifers. On the flip side, I *still* haven't seen any flycatchers or swallows around my place.

Kelly Cassidy
South of Pullman