Subject: [Tweeters] Who's visiting my porch and our neighborhood!
Date: Apr 27 10:32:03 2007
From: Kelly McAllister - mcallisters4 at comcast.net


Wow, Nina, you're enthusiasm is a splendor to behold.

I checked out your pictures and it does appear that you got a nice portrait
of the neck and head of a Mourning Dove.

The Calliope Hummingbird is great sighting. Dawn Bailey photographed a
Calliope Hummingbird near Eatonville just a couple of weeks ago. They are
"very rare" in western Washington according to the tome by Wahl, Tweit, and
Mlodinow. Any chance you could upload the picture of the hummingbird to your
site?

Kelly McAllister
Olympia, Washington

----- Original Message -----
From: "nina" <neens at wavecable.com>
To: <Tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 10:17 AM
Subject: [Tweeters] Who's visiting my porch and our neighborhood!


> Last weekend, I took my mom to visit a heron rookery a friend told me
> about - we counted TWENTY THREE NESTS!!!!! WOW! I would love to have a
> stool, and legal access to sit all day and watch/wait for herons to
> photograph. <sigh> They are SO beautiful! We also enjoyed watching a
> female eagle in her nest feeding her young (too small to peek above the
> nest's edge) while the male brought her food and watched nearby. This was
> our first time to see an eagle's nest. Holy smokes! What an amazing
> piece of architecture!!!!!
>
> Lst week, I had the purple finch show up
> (http://westernimagphoto.smugmug.com/gallery/2290326#143200282) - I was
> entranced... In conversation with my fellow birding neighbor, she told me
> about Goldfinches! Lo and behold, the next day I saw a flash of yellow,
> and quickly looked up on my bird chart - Goldfinch. Off I ran to the
> WILDBIRD store to acquire the necessary things for finches... I hung three
> socks wednesday evening, and Thursday morning enjoyed the antics of
> between four and eight goldfinches! One of the finches has realized the
> hanging feeder is the place to be, so while everyone crowds amongst song
> sparrows and pine siskins on the socks... this little guy hangs out on the
> feeder and eats like a champ! :O)
>
> My neighbor also caught a snapshot of a Calliope Hummingbird last
> week!!!!! It's blurry, but there's no doubt (even for my un-practiced
> eye) that it's a Calliope!!!! Of course, she enjoys probably 30+
> hummingbirds in her yard all the time but there have apparently been VERY
> FEW sightings of this bird in Kitsap, and only her photograph that we know
> of! I was truly excited for her!.
>
> This morning, I had two new someones visit - can't tell if it's a dove or
> a pigeon... I think one is a dove - All I could get was a headshot through
> the railing of my porch.
> http://westernimagphoto.smugmug.com/gallery/2290326#147344251
>
> The second visitor was a pigeon (Band Tailed Pigeon) I've never seen
> before - never seen a pigeon here in the neighborhood...a grab shot in my
> tree. http://westernimagphoto.smugmug.com/gallery/2290326#147344194
>
> Rest assured, I am going to B&N tonight, armed with my emailed coupon to
> invest in a solid bird reference!!!!!!!!!
>
> nina
> Newberry Hill area (Bremerton)
>
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