Subject: [Tweeters] Fall berry time
Date: Oct 11 15:26:38 2005
From: Brett Wolfe - m_lincolnii at yahoo.com


This is a good time of year to find some aberrantly colored birds. About 4 years ago, in a flock of some 400 robins on Capitol Hill in Seattle, I was able to note two odd colored robins. One had some white on the head, in a kind of streak down the center of the skull. I thought that weird until I saw a 2nd bird, this one a robin with a normally colored body but an all white head. It was definitely the epitome of "weird bird". It's head looked ghost white, almost like bone skull, and it's eyes seemed larger due to the odd coloring.

I have also seen large flocks of waxwings and robins near Shoreline Community College in the past. Very active, lots of squabbling. But wait'll you hear how quiet it gets when a Cooper's Hawk flies thru!!

Brett A. Wolfe
Seattle, WA
m_lincolnii at yahoo.com


"Guttman, Burt" <GuttmanB at evergreen.edu> wrote:
We haven't quite been having a feeding frenzy here, as we did about this time last year, but the Pacific Madrone and Mountain Ash berries are ripe, and the woods are full of Robins and Band-tailed Pigeons feeding voraciously. A pleasant time to be watching and enjoying the yard.


Burt Guttman
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, WA 98505 guttmanb at evergreen.edu
Home: 7334 Holmes Island Road S. E., Olympia, 98503


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