Tweets,

I'm just back from a short Mexican adventure. Climbed Mt. Ixtaccihuatl where I was entertained by a pair of Common Ravens cavorting at 16,600 feet. Perhaps some sort of altitude record?

Back to my King County year listing, I was able to find both the Black and Say's Phoebes today, though neither was altogether forthcoming. The Black Phoebe kept low in a broken off tree along the ditch just west of the bridge over the creek on 29th St. NW north of Emerald Downs while the Say's -- which had eluded me several times already this year -- finally popped up on the barbed wire fence across the slough south of 196th just east of the Boeing Ponds, then as soon disappeared. But I finally relocated it sitting very quietly on a steel post in the industrial lot just south of the fence. It may spend a good part of its day in such places sitting very quiet and still.

Driving north on 405 through Renton I spotted a Turkey Vulture overhead and then an Osprey sitting at its nest on the cell phone tower just west of the freeway there. Finally, a Caspian Tern over the 520 bridge. Oh yes, a Common Yellowthroat singing at the Green River Wildlife Area and numbers of Savannah and White-crowned Sparrows singing and Violet-green and Tree Swallows overhead.

Gene Hunn
18476 47th Pl NE
Lake Forest Park, WA 98155
enhunn323 at comcast.net