Subject: [Tweeters] Today at Theler Wetlands, or...
Date: Oct 2 19:29:01 2004
From: MaryK - CelloBird at seanet.com


yes, it Is possible to have a good time birding even if you don't have
binoculars!

I actually was just looking for a nice walk outside, not considering this a
birding jaunt, but it's true, once a birder you never stop birding. Indeed,
why would you want to?

Not having bins made me focus more intently on things like overall shape,
flight patterns, behavior, things like that. It might not be a bad idea to
leave the bins at home (once my replacement pairs arrive) every so often,
just as a birding exercise. On second thought, naaaaahhhh...

Birds seen and/or heard, in taxillogical order:

Crows
Chickadees, both Black-capped and Chestnut-backed
Bewick's Wren (we traded buzzy insults for a while)
Song Sparrow (some singing; this place is lousy with SOSP)
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Hutton's Vireo (a very obliging bird, got a nice long look at it)
Great Blue Heron (which I originally mistook for a mailbox, but
that's another story!)
Northern Harrier (there may have been two birds; juvies or adult
females)
Bald Eagle
Belted Kingfisher (2)
Killdeer (dozen or so)
Peep (not identifiable)
Mallard (3, then a flock of 8 overhead)
Northern Flicker
Downy Woodpecker
Gull sp.
Red-winged Blackbirds
Ring-necked Pheasant
Spotted Towhee (one with no white markings on wings whatsoever, a
juvie?)
Winter Wren (in a bush, singing, away from the woods, which is kind
of dumbfounding; anybody think of anything else that sounds like a WIWR that
hangs out in bushes?)

The BOD was the HUVI, just because it stayed around and gave me a good look
at it.

There were a few fish splashes, maybe some of the chum salmon heading up
towards the fish trap, who knows. Several squirrels, one pair of which
appeared to be racing each other up trees.

Cheers,
Mary

Mary Klein
Bremerton WA
CelloBird at seanet.com