Subject: [Tweeters] some Skagit birds Sunday
Date: Nov 15 07:12:43 2004
From: Gary Bletsch - garybletsch at yahoo.com


Dear Tweeters,

Thanks to the Tweeter (I forget your name!) who posted
the Yellow-headed Blackbird on the Gardner Road,
between Sedro-Woolley and Burlington (Skagit County).
I was able to relocate this bird yesterday. That farm,
located just south of Cook Road on Gardner Road (north
of Burlington) is one of the most dependable winter
blackbird-starling spots in the area. There were about
five thousand birds there yesterday, including
Starlings, Red-winged Blackbirds, Brewer's Blackbirds,
and at least one Brown-headed Cowbird.

Out at the Samish Flats was a Peregrine, although I
could not find the Gyrfalcon. Sunset Road had about
5000 Dunlin with 135 Black-bellied Plover.

At Samish Island Public Beach were my first Oldsquaw
of the fall three, pretty close in), along with 13
Brant (also my first of the fall). Two Fox Sparrows
fed with juncoes and Song and Golden-crowned Sparrows
in the hedgerow along the road there, too.
On Cockreham Island was a Cooper's Hawk; just north of
the island was a Northern Shrike.



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Yours truly,

Gary Bletsch

near Lyman (Skagit County), Washington

garybletsch at yahoo.com




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