Subject: Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (pair?)
Date: May 27 10:52:06 2002
From: Sherry Hagen - littlebirder at netzero.net


Yesterday (May 26th), my husband Arden and Glenn & Mary Ann Teague went to
see the Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher at Hardy Canyon since we were at the Audubon
Wenas Campout. We were there for quite a long time watching and over that
period of time we are certain that we were watching two different birds....
male and female. One had the blackish line by the eye and a little darker
cap. The other's head was solid lighter gray with a nice white eye ring and
no dark line. We saw both through the scope and the "female" came close to
the road down near the big pine tree. We never saw the two together butone
time, one bird we were watching flew down the canyon to the sage brush and
all of a sudden there was a bird at the nest then it took off and one flew
over our heads from the west and went to the nest area. Either the bird is
very very fast and changes head patterns or there are a pair.

O> Sherry Hagen
_/_)_ Vancouver, WA
/ littlebirder at netzero.net