Hi Tweets:

Many birds were in full song while I walked some of the trails at Cougar
Mountain Regional Wildland Park on Saturday. Warbling Vireos were singing
everywhere, as were Black-throated Gray Warbler, Wilson's Warbler, Swainson's
Thrush, Brown Creeper. I watched a female Western Tanager meticulously
picking up dog hair from the path. When a male tanager dropped from a tree
to join her, she quickly flew at him; he retreated to the tree and she went
back to the delicate task of picking up each individual dog hair. As I was
driving out of the Anti-Aircraft Peak trailhead area, I saw a bird in the
road. After stopping I could see that it was a Bewick's Wren presumably
cleaning itself in the gravel. I watched it for a least 5 minutes as it
rolled around in two different depressions that it made in the gravel.

SPECIES SEEN
>From 6/22/2002 to 6/22/2002 ~ Cougar Mtn. ~ 24 seen
Great Blue Heron - flyover
Red-tailed Hawk - flyover
Rufous Hummingbird - 3
Western Wood-Pewee
Pacific-slope Flycatcher
Tree Swallow
Violet-green Swallow
Bewick's Wren
Winter Wren
Swainson's Thrush
American Robin
Black-capped Chickadee
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Warbling Vireo - many
Red-eyed Vireo
Black-throated Gray Warbler - several
Wilson's Warbler - several
Western Tanager
Spotted Towhee
Song Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
House Finch

Joyce Meyer
Woodinville, WA