Interesting about the Flicker, this morning we also had one feeding at the
Niger and the sunflower feeders.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Olstad" <rolstad at earthlink.net>
To: "Michael Hobbs" <birdmarymoor at verizon.net>; <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 9:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Odd dipper sighting


>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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