Tweets,

On the subject of "groundhogs", I saw my first Townsend's Ground Squirrel of
the year, today east of Yakima. I heard one on Feb 2. This seems very
early to me.

Scott Ray
Yakima
scray at wolfenet.com




-----Original Message-----
From: TWEETERS-owner at u.washington.edu
[mailto:TWEETERS-owner at u.washington.edu]On Behalf Of Hughbirder at aol.com
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 8:23 PM
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Subject: Groundhogs


I reported seeing groundhogs in eastern Washington on Sat. Kelly Cassidy
emailed me that groundhogs don't occur there and they were probably
Yellow-bellied Marmots. She is correct. We saw them in the rocks at the East
end of the Rocky Reach Dam. I hadn't seen marmots at that low an elevation
before and didn't question my partner's call of groundhogs. I should also
have reported that one of the Rough-legged Hawks we saw was a dark morph
female or juvenile.

Hugh Jennings
Bellevue, WA
hughbirder at aol.com