Had a townsend's warbler in yard for a few minutes this morning. First one
since 2000.
Ed
edswan at thurston.com
Olympia, WA
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what
nobody has thought" --Albert Szent-Gyorg i (1893-1986).

----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas F Daily" <dfdaily at juno.com>
To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 5:41 PM
Subject: Another Townsend's; feeder watch


> I saw two Townsend's a short while ago at NSCC, but today we had one in
> our yard. It spend about 10 minutes poking under leaves and hopping into
> the shrubs along the edge of the yard.
>
> My new thistle feeder is a typical tube feeder but the perches require
> the birds to hang upside down to access the tiny openings for the seeds.
> It works great, and I've had 4-10 PINE SISKINS regularly this winter.
>
> I'm also testing a new design that will discourage house sparrows from
> the black sunflower feeder. So far it seems to work. It also discourages
> the house finches. But I've gotten very tired of refilling the feeder for
> this house pigs.
>
> Douglas Daily, Patricia Federighi, Bargello
> Northgate, Seattle, WA
> mailto: dfdaily at juno.com
>