Only a little report, from last Saturday and today...

Last Saturday I got out to the Theler Wetlands at a little after 8 am and
stayed for a couple of hours. Was interested in hearing my first Winter
Wren of the spring, and nature did not disappoint! Had hoped for singing
White-Crowned Sparrows, but alas, "only" Song Sparrows. Had a Spotted
Towhee perched high in a leafless tree trilling his little heart out, lotsa
"zhweeing" House Finches. A few Bewick's Wrens, many singing Red-Winged
Blackbirds and responding females. No Marsh Wrens. Too early, or do they
not hang out in salt marshes? Must look that up. The most fun, though, was
watching a pair of Bushtits working on a nest. It was kind of a
cruddy-looking long, narrow, thing in the middle of a patch of what looked
like tall, dark-red sticks, (s'cuse me, I don't know my vegetation),
constructed so as to be attached to a couple of sticks parallel and close to
each other, the only such thing there, so... The birds would come and go
quickly, fly into the nest, and come back out. Very cute.

Today was my Official First Day of Spring: the first singing White-Crowned
Sparrow Sparrow of the year, yay! It was out in Silverdale in the Old Town
area at the end of Dyes Inlet. Also had a Yellowlegs wading in the water,
was too far away w/o bins to determine Greater or Lesser. This is a place
to check out more closely once the shorebirds start moving here in earnest.
And, it was a good day of birds, for not being an on-purpose birding day.

Cheers,
Mary

Mary Klein
Bremerton WA
CelloBird at seanet.com