Subject: Potholes Reservoir records
Date: Oct 22 13:18:56 2002
From: Dennis Paulson - dpaulson at ups.edu


Gary Shugart just informed me that he saw a flock of 20 BUSHTITS at the
north end of the Potholes Reservoir, Grant County, on Sunday, 20 October.
He was camped there, and the flock moved through the willows and then
disappeared. I wonder if this is a first county record. Otherwise, the
willows were virtually birdless, the other birds a flock of Dark-eyed
Juncos and White-crowned Sparrows.

He also said that BEWICK'S WRENS bred in the same place this summer, that
he heard several singing and saw juveniles, last sighting about a month
ago. They were reported north to the nearby Columbia National Wildlife
Refuge in the Washington Breeding Bird Atlas. This is two western
Washington birds that are colonizing the east side, probably because of
anthropogenic alterations of the ambience.

The times they are a changin'!

Dennis Paulson, Director phone 253-879-3798
Slater Museum of Natural History fax 253-879-3352
University of Puget Sound e-mail dpaulson at ups.edu
1500 N. Warner, #1088
Tacoma, WA 98416-1088
http://www.ups.edu/biology/museum/museum.html