Neglected to include the required info in the original post, mea culpa!

Mary Klein
Seattle WA
CelloBird at seanet.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: MaryK [mailto:CelloBird at seanet.com]
> Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2003 3:18 PM
> To: Tweeters (tweeters at u.washington.edu)
> Subject: [TWEETERS] Jeepers Creepers!
>
>
> Late this AM I took a little stroll along the Wolf Nature
> Trail at Discovery Park in Seattle. What a cool little
> trail! Takes you into a forested area w/a typical Puget
> Sound understory, deciduous and evergreen trees, a little
> stream, and a kind of boggy area. This wasn't really a
> "birding" trip, more of a meander thru the woods, but you
> know how that goes, you can never stop birding.
>
> Anyway, what really surprised me was the number of calling
> Brown Creepers. It sounded as if there were five or six
> spread along the trail, and all of them kept up a pretty
> constant racket. It was a lot of fun to watch their flit
> down, creep up behavior. Anyone know if what seemed to be a
> large number of creepers in a relatively small area is
> common? Don't think I've ever seen/heard so many at one time.
>
> Other birds, in no particular order:
>
> Anna's Hummingbird
> Swainson's Thrush
> Song Sparrow (singing!)
> Black-capped Chickadee
> Chestnut-backed Chickadee
> Spotted Towhee
> Bewick's Wren
> Winter Wren
> American Robin
>
> A short but enjoyable walk and list of birds seen.
>
> MK
>