Subject: Busy Back Yard!
Date: Jan 5 15:56:58 2004
From: Ann27Jan at aol.com - Ann27Jan at aol.com


This has been the most amazing day at my bird feeder (as I'm sure it has been
at yours as well!) and in my back yard.I spent about three hours observing
the goings on! We've had the following visitors:
* our first ever varried thrushes (a pair)
* a robin, generally not seen this time of year in my yard
* about one hundred starlings (three died from crashing into the wall of
the neighbor's house), all of them fighting tooth and nail for the seeds
* our first ever Red Tailed Hawk who snatched one of the starlings out of
the neighbors bird feeder and flew up into the trees behind my house to
finish him off
* we've also had an increase in towees at our feeder, and a fox sparrow,
not seen before the recent storm
* the usual juncos, chick-a-dees, finches
* gone as of late last week are the jays and flickers
I haven't seen any anna'a hummingbirds and don't have feeders out. Should I
put some out? Has anyone else in Westport seen any recently?
One of the Audubon board members said she has a friend who reported a black
and white warbler in Tokeland last week. Has anyone else seen it?
Jan/Westport
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