Subject: Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Date: Nov 25 13:49:22 2003
From: Ruth Sullivan - godwit at worldnet.att.net


Hello Scott,
It would be interesting where in Ridgefield the Yellow-billed Loon was sighted.


Cheers Ruth Sullivan
----- Original Message -----
From: Scott Atkinson
To: ixoreus at scattercreek.com ; tweeters at u.washington.edu
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 8:53 AM
Subject: Re: Northern Rough-winged Swallow


Tweeters:

Don't know if others caught it but yesterday there was a post from a party down at Ridgefield that reported two N. Rough-wings, and a Chipping Sparrow, which are quite out of season. They also reported YB Loon.

Scott Atkinson

Lake Stevens

mail to: scottratkinson at hotmail.com





>From: "Robert Sundstrom"
>Reply-To: ixoreus at scattercreek.com
>To: "tweeters"
>Subject: Northern Rough-winged Swallow & other Columbia Basin birding
>Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 21:23:42 -0800
>
>Tweets,
>
>I was surprised - actually the whole group of ten of us were surprised - to
>see a single Northern Rough-winged Swallow at Wanapum State Park today (a
>few miles south of Vantage). Presumably a late hanger-on heading south. I
>felt better for the swallow when we drove a mile further south into clouds
>of midges - swarms of many thousands of tiny flying insects. Two other
>mostly summer visitors seen today were Rock Wren and Loggerhead Shrike (the
>latter in Crab Creek NWR), although these species overwinter in small
>numbers in "normal" years. Nine Bighorn Sheep at Gingko State Park were led
>by one very impressive nearly full curl ram, and flanked by a covey of
>Chukar. We watched a Prairie Falcon diving on a flock of starlings along
>Red Rock Rd., which was an uplifting endeavor, except the aerial swarms of
>starlings in that part of Lower Crab Creek appeared to number over ten
>thousand.
>
>Good Birding,
>Bob Sundstrom
>
>ixoreus at scattercreek.com
>along Scatter Creek east of Tenino, WA
>


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