Subject: [Tweeters] Odd dipper sighting
Date: Oct 4 09:43:56 2005
From: Roger Olstad - rolstad at earthlink.net


I agree...an odd sighting. Last year I had a similar, but more local,
Dipper sighting. Hidden Lake in Shoreline is fed and drained by Boeing
Creek, but the Dipper was working the lake bottom, coming up for air on
partially submerged sticks before heading back into the water.

Speaking of odd sightings, this morning I observed (for the first time ever)
a Flicker feeding from a thistle tube feeder in my yard filled with a Niger
Thistle/Sunflower seed mix........how unusual is that?? ......and the Crows
have figured out how to eat sunflower chips from another tube feeder, in
competition with the Chickadees, Nuthatches, etc. which keep their distance
when the Crows are around.

Roger Olstad
Lake Forest Park

> From: "Michael Hobbs" <birdmarymoor at verizon.net>
> Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 22:24:08 -0700
> To: "Tweeters \(E-mail\)" <TWEETERS at u.washington.edu>
> Subject: [Tweeters] Odd dipper sighting
>
> Tweets - yesterday, my family hiked with the Washington Native Plant Society
> up (almost) to Silver Peak, above Hyak. While on the Pacific Crest trail at
> somewhat above 4000' elevation, we came across one of those shallow alpine
> ponds, perhaps 1500-2000 sq. ft. Along the edge (and feeding there for
> several hours) was an American Dipper. This is the first time I've ever
> seen one in slack water. The only stream nearby was the one feeding and
> draining the pond, and it was no more than a couple of feet wide.
>
> I did read, in the new Birds of Washington (Wahl et. al, 2005), that they
> will range up to tree line during post breeding dispersal. So I guess
> that's what I saw.
>
> == Michael Hobbs
> == Kirkland, WA
> == http://www.scn.org/fomp/birding.htm
> == birdmarymoor at verizon.net
>
>
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