Wow!

It's like the whole world is waking up in my back yard! As I trudged out to
pick up the morning paper I was thrilled to hear lots, and lots of BIRDS
calling and cheering on the coming of spring. A huge flock of robins
swarmed my yard pecking around for bugs and worms. I pulled out my binocs
and scanned the group in search of Varied Thrushes who often hang out on the
edges of a robin flock. I did see something unusual - a robin with long,
bright white tail feathers! I think it was an otherwise normally colored
male.



Also passing through my yard was a female FLICKER..first one noticed this
season.



And too many, in the words of a zoology professor I once knew, "junk birds"
are frequenting my feeder. Nasty little house sparrows have eaten my feeder
empty in just two weeks! But CHESTNUT BACK CHICKADEES seem to frequent
the feeder more than their black back cousins. Song sparrows also use the
feeder and juncos and towhees eat what falls to the ground.



Let's hope the Western Tanagers pass through again this year..



LYDIA BISHOP

Near Lake Stevens, WA



Life Is A Sit-Com On The Reality Side Of The Tube

And When It's Not A Sit-Com, It's a Soap!



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