Well, sounds like everyone had good birds today. I knew that there would be
migrants after those huge winds yesterday so I took off early for my meeting
and birded the St. Martin's College Campus trails for about 25 minutes. One
of the first songs I heard was the staccato notes of a WILSON'S WARBLER.
Still no Pac-Slopes at this location yet (Keith Brady told me he heard one
at Nisqually this AM), but there were many O/C WARBLERS and Y/Rumpeds
singing. A migrant G/C Sparrow was at the Lacey Library feeder (I assume a
migrant since they have been rare at the seed the last two weeks). The pair
of R/T HAWKS are nesting again along the edge of the open fields south of
the interstate. EVENING GROSBEAKS continue here and in my neighborhood in
NE Olympia. Also got decent looks at a male TOWNSEND'S WARBLER singing high
up in the firs along one of the trails. All the local trillers were present
with CHIPPING SPARROW singing from up near the campus buildings, Juncos
singing everywhere, Towhees in the undergrowth and O/Crowneds at the forest
edges.

Yesterday there was a lingering pair of BARROW'S GOLDENEYE along West Bay in
downtown Olympia along with close-in flirty PIGEON GUILLEMOTS. Last I heard
the female PEREGRINE is sitting in the nest box on top of the larger crane
in the Olympia "harbor."

Jason Paulios
Jpaulios at earthlink.net
Olympia, WA