Subject: Nisqually sightings 09/22/02
Date: Sep 23 11:12:47 2002
From: Jason Paulios - jpaulios at hotmail.com


Not a bad morning for fall migrants in Thurston County yesterday. While
pouring some cereal I heard a different call note coming from the backyard,
I pished a bit and then waited...about 10 seconds later a Fox Sparrow flew
up to my back fence and then at my head! Welcome back I guess.

Nisqually NWR (morning before 11:00 and the Sunday "traffic")
good mixed flock at the willows by refuge:
1 Downy Woodpecker
B/C Chickadees
2 R/C KINGLETS (still singing)
7 Golden-crowned Kinglets (gotta be migrants if in the willows!)
1 Common Yellowthroat

Twin Barns overlook has a tilled soil field now...could produce this fall:
2 Bald Eagles
2 N. Harriers
10+ Killdeer
1 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER (flyby, calling)
1 Pileated Woodpecker flying by river
2 LINCOLN'S SPARROWS
10 G/C SPARROWS
1 B/H COWBIRD (near Nisqually river...late?)

Luhr Beach:
5 Common Loons
50 Horned Grebes (stopped counting)
24 White-winged Scoters
15 Surf Scoters
100s of distant A. Wigeon moving in on the reach
3 Caspian Tern

Jason Paulios
JPaulios at hotmail.com
Olympia, WA

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