Subject: [Tweeters] Mt. Chickadees, Black-thr. Gray
Date: Oct 4 14:31:19 2004
From: Scott Atkinson - scottratkinson at hotmail.com


Tweeters:

This Mountain Chickadee invasion is something else. While jogging though
Discovery Park just a couple hours ago I heard the hoarse chick-a-dee songs
of two MOUNTAIN CHICKADEES near the south entrance, then I saw them fly off.
Also of note in the south meadow was a HORNED LARK that I flushed. We've
of course had invasions of this chickadee before, but never (that I can
recall) in such numbers. Although most westside lowland visits in the past
involved single birds, I recall at least one other (in the early 70s) when
small groups were also found. Hopefully a few will hang around for the
CBCs.

News from n. Lake Stevens: we had a BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER hanging in
there w/a Townsend's yesterday, Oct. 3, not late yet but getting there.
Other autumn-related news: one has the impression that this is a
better-than-average year for mushrooms given the warm summer and then heavy
Sept. rains. Nothing unusual but Russula, Pleurotus, Stropharia, Lactarius,
Mycena, Hygrophorus, Naemotoloma, Clitocybe, Coprinus, and Panaeolus and
several other genera were represented in myriad shapes and colors, were
present in/near our woods yesterday. And of another autumn theme, it was
13-7 over Granite Falls (our first victory), Sept 29.

On the Sullivan's vagrant theme, seems like we've enjoyed a super fall for
birding so far, hopefully it'll last awhile longer.

Scott Atkinson
Lake Stevens
mail to: scottratkinson at hotmail.com

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