Subject: Duvall move follow-up
Date: Oct 2 19:47:27 2003
From: Christine Vadai - christinevadai at sprynet.com


Hi Tweets,

Earlier this year I reported on our move from Bothell to Duvall, and comparing the birding experiences, and just wanted to follow up.

I had reported no House Finches or Band-tailed Pigeons at the feeders initially (in July). Both of those conditions have been rectified: I'm now getting tons of each, the pigeons (usually joined by 2-3 Mourning doves) are crowding both the quail/dove feeder and the platform feeder. I also finally have been getting juncos - they were hanging out down the road since August, but hadn't noticed the feeder until earlier this week. We had a splendid warbler migration, with a lot of Black-throated Gray and Townsend's Warblers along with just a bunch of Pacific-slope Flycatchers, yet strangely no Yellow-rumps in the mix. We also got an adult male Nashville Warbler around the feeders in mid-September. Late in August, we had a series of owls move through, first a Great-horned, followed by two Barred Owls calling loudly, then a Northern Pygmy, and now we're getting regular flyovers of Barn Owls.

So, far there are only a few species that were on my Bothell list that I haven't seen yet in Duvall (excluding the real rarities like Redpolls):
Brewer's Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
California Quail
Canada Goose
Evening Grosbeak
Fox Sparrow
Golden-crowned Kinglet - these should be coming shortly...
Hermit Thrush
Hutton's Vireo
Mallard - these were hanging around the feeders in Bothell, and even resting on the neighbor's roof
Olive-sided Flycatcher - had sporadically in Bothell
Purple Finch - twice had a singing male in my yard in the spring, and a female once in the fall
Trumpeter Swan - saw a flyover once during the winter
Varied Thrush - usually saw in Dec/Jan
Western Kingbird - saw once in fall migration
White-crowned Sparrow
Yellow-rumped Warbler - strangely, I got 5 other species of warbler, but no YRs.

And a few that aren't missed very much :-):

House Sparrow
Starling
Rock Dove

There are also a few birds on the Duvall list that I didn't see in 8 years in Bothell. The most interesting to me are the Mourning doves, which I didn't expect this far west, and the Pygmy owl and Nashville Warbler - I had expected them at higher elevation.

Osprey - a pair nesting down the road
Mourning Dove- 2-3 regular at the feeders
Nashville Warbler- 1 male in mid-September
Northern Pygmy-owl - one in late August
Turkey Vulture - regular flyovers

As of today, adding 2 more yard birds (red-breasted sapsucker and ruby-crowned kinglet), my yard list is up to 56 since July.

Regards
Christine Vadai
Duvall, WA
christinevadai at sprynet.com
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