Subject: Fw: spring has sprung
Date: Feb 20 18:27:45 2004
From: Ruth Sullivan - godwit at worldnet.att.net



----- Original Message -----
From: Ruth Sullivan
To: dpaulson at ups.edu
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 4:25 PM
Subject: Re: spring has sprung


Hello tweeters and birders,
Yesterday morning was the last day that the many Varied Thrushes was feeding on our patio on the Peanuts.Every morning there lined up on the railing to feed .So we have to get up real early to make sure we putting the favored food out there also feed on Suet.Also halve of our Juncos going away to.It is certainly a change in our yard not seeing all that many Birds as we had one of the highest count on Varied Thrushes this year only in 1992 we had a big count also.We had on a regular day on 18 to 20 birds,some taken 6 to seven Peanuts at one time to going sown to finish up.It looks as now spring is sprung and it was a long winter.My early Wild Currant got big butts not to much longer and I will get my first Rufous here feeding first on the currant bush and later on to the feeder.My two male Anna's showing sign's of breeding flashing his iridescent of its crown and gorget.He also perches for thirty minutes some time waiting for the female to come.My two Bewick's Wren are so loud now that I believe that there calling to attract the females.One bird been really absent in our yard.We used to have least 4 Downy Woodpeckers,but since we have high count on Flickers this birds been staying away.Only to seeing a single female Downy and there used to come to the suet on a regular basis.Could there getting intimidated by the bigger flicker? When we had many Downy here we maybe get one flicker but we having least six of this big flickers taken turns on the suet and the peanuts.

Cheers Ruth Sullivan
From: "Dennis Paulson" <dpaulson at ups.edu>
To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 1:58 PM
Subject: spring has sprung


> I haven't been checking tweeters lately, so perhaps there are many
> messages to this effect, but my first real sign of spring was a
> Band-tailed Pigeon in full display flight over the woods adjacent to
> this building just now, first time I've seen that this year (and I'm
> looking out this window every day). Of course the crocuses have been
> blooming in our yard for some time, but I like to look for seasonal
> phenomena among the native species.
> --
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> Slater Museum of Natural History fax 253-879-3352
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