Are many eagles already feeding near Concrete & Marblemount WA? I am interested in driving up this weekend if so.
-Rebecca Laszlo
Seattle WA
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3. Re: Spelling of wigeon/widgeon (dave templeton)
4. Hawk Attack and a general 'office greenbelt' update
(johntubbs at comcast.net)
5. Re: Re: Re: Re: Handling all those emails from Tweeters,
Obol (Joemeche at aol.com)
6. JANUARY 4, 2007 KING COUNTY RUSTY BLACKBIRD
(Eugene and Nancy Hunn)
7. RE: Spelling of wigeon/widgeon (Cliff Drake)
8. Anna's Hummingbird...Finally! (Daniel Corcoran)
9. RE: Spelling of wigeon/widgeon (Kelly Cassidy)
10. "Ducking The Issue" (Steve Ellis)
11. addemdum to King County report for today (Eugene and Nancy Hunn)
12. Nisqually RFI (Brett Wolfe)
13. Snowy Owls - Not (ronpatdexter at msn.com)
14. no Slaty-backed Gull today (Marv Breece)
15. Red Crossbills (Scott Atkinson)
16. Point Wilson,Quimper Peninsula, Yard Birds (Bob Whitney)
17. RE: Spelling of wigeon/widgeon (dave templeton)
18. Nisqually NWR 1/4/07 (Scrubjay323 at aol.com)
19. Swamp Sparrow--Woodland (washingtonbirder.Knittle Knittle)
20. Spokane Bird Alert Jan 4, 2007 (craigco)
21. [ Article ] the Oregon Birding Trail (carenp)
22. Black-headed Gull - No (Brad Waggoner)
23. Fw: [Tweeters] no Slaty-backed Gull today (Marv Breece)
24. Re: Red Crossbills (Rob McNair-Huff)
25. slate-colored juncos (Greg and Sally Toffic)
26. 2006 Grays Harbor CBC Results (. KDB .)
27. Big Bend NP (jora at riseup.net)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 20:43:46 +0000
From: vogelfreund at comcast.net
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Reading Tweeters Email
To: Tweeters at u.washington.edu
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01/04/06
I don't know what all the fuss is about. Do as I do and allocate one email address to Tweeters. That frees up my normal email sites for normal business.
Phil Hotllen
Bellingham, WA
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> The best way I have found to read the Tweeters messages is to put a shortcut of
> the website on your desktop of the following:
>
> http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/TWET.html
>
> This way you don't have emails clogging up your mailbox. You can click on the
> desktop shortcut and see the list of emails posted for the past three days and
> click on those you want to read. It fast and efficient. I usually check on
> Tweeters traffic whenever I am on the computer.
>
Hugh
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 13:09:48 -0800
From: "David Parent" <dpdvm at whidbey.com>
Subject: [Tweeters] First Hospitalized Bird of the Year - Hutton's
Vireo
To: "Tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
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It's gonna be a good year!
I work in a veterinary hospital and we do some wildlife work on the side. We
might be a bit superstitious but we predict what type of year it will be by
whether or not the first bird that is brought in lives or dies. We've struck
out the last three years with hopeless cases that ended in either death or
euthanasia. In 2007, the first bird through the door was a Hutton's Vireo
(first one we've hospitalized) that had smacked a window. It had some pretty
severe neurological problems and I expected it to die. Nevertheless, we
administered some medications and kept it overnight.
This morning when I arrived, I heard some skritching on the side of the box
and discovered that the bird was rarin' to go! We released it; it flew to
the nearby Scotch broom patch and proceeded to chew us out. Obviously, it
hadn't appreciated the treatment or accommodations.
Now, if we could only have this kind of success every year!
Dave Parent, Freeland, Whidbey Island
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 14:27:47 -0800
From: dave templeton <crazydave65 at inbox.com>
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Spelling of wigeon/widgeon
To: Paul Moorehead <pjm at sos.net>, tweeters at u.washington.edu
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but then, too, if the statement proposed is known to be untrue now, the statement becomes conditional, and the proper verb form is past tense -- thus, properly phrased the statement would, as we all know, have properly been 'if it were a stellar jay' . . ..
[grade c-, too many commas. the old ways die hard.]
regards,
dave tee
crazydave65atinboxdotcom
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pjm at sos.net
> Sent: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 09:46:29 -0800
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Spelling of wigeon/widgeon
>
> And, as we all know, if it was a stellar jay the adjective would not
> be capitalized. :)
>
> Just another star-crossed corvid aficionado,
>
> Paul Moorehead
> Guemes
> pjm AT sos dot net
>
> On Jan 3, 2007, at 9:04 PM, Rachel wrote:
>
> However, I think it does indicate a certain lack of seriousness
> (my definition of it, anyway) when birders who no longer are
> beginners can't be bothered to learn the correct names and/or
> spellings for birds. "Stellar Jay" just about drives me crazy.
>>
>> Rachel Lawson
>> Seattle
>> RachelWL at msn.com
>>
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 23:00:23 +0000
From: johntubbs at comcast.net
Subject: [Tweeters] Hawk Attack and a general 'office greenbelt'
update
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
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Hi all,
Today (ironically as I was reading the Tweeters daily digest at lunch sitting at my office computer), I got to witness a lightning-quick attack by an adult Cooper's Hawk.
My office has two windows facing a small greenbelt/stream buffer area in Redmond with a small perennial stream - very birdy and the woods are less than twenty feet away from my windows. I have a couple of feeders set up and have turned the walls of my office into a collage of bird images I've taken from our two-building complex and adjoining areas (including a great marshy meadow and blackberry kacks next to a PSE substation). The combination of my wall images and the view of the bird activity from my office has drawn a lot of interest from the non-birders who work at my company.
The feeders are popular with all the usual suspect species, and I've had several Cooper's Hawks (one juvenile and one or more adults) make a couple of apparently unsuccessful attacks on the feeder flock. Today, the large flock (40-50) of American Goldfinches that visits every day was in the vicinity and working the feeders and trees when birds exploded everywhere. One clonked into my window very hard (the first strike ever, because the windows are visible to the birds). Simultaneously, a larger bird flashed in from the right, its left wingtip literally scraping against the window which had just been bonked, banked a hard right and flew off into the greenbelt at about ten feet off the ground. I was able to see enough to ID it as a Cooper's (still haven't had a Sharpie here yet). The hawk probably got the goldfinch which hit the window because there was no stunned bird outside and there were a couple of feathers wafting to the ground in the seconds following the attack. !
I only
wish I had seen where the hawk was staging his attack so I could have watched the entire drama rather than the last few seconds of it.
I've totaled 50 species in or directly adjacent to our business park since July, with most noted in the three months that we've been located here full time. These include ducks/waterbirds/marsh species like American Coot, Gadwall, Green Heron, Hooded Merganser, Marsh Wren, Wilson's Snipe and Mallard that utilize the two small retention ponds (one perennial, one seasonal) associated with the greenbelt. Raptors seen include Red Tailed Hawk, American Kestrel, Bald Eagle and Cooper's Hawk. Among the remaining species are: a covey of California Quail that are seen almost every day; Brown Creeper; Fox Sparrow; both species of Kinglets; Downy, Hairy and Pileated Woodpeckers; Pine Siskin; Purple Finch; Townsend's Warbler; and Varied Thrush. Probably the 'best' species seen so far was a WHITE THROATED SPARROW that appeared daily at the feeders for about a week in December and then vanished. I did get some passable images of the WTSP during the time he was there. The resident fl!
ock of
Dark Eyed Juncos includes a beautiful male Slate-Colored subspecies.
John Tubbs
Snoqualmie, WA
johntubbs at comcast.net
www.tubbsphoto.com
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 18:06:43 EST
From: Joemeche at aol.com
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Re: Re: Re: Handling all those emails from
Tweeters, Obol
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
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Perhaps the ultimate solution to what so many seem to see as a dilemma is to
(paraphrasing an old John Prine song) "blow up your computer."
He also goes on to say suggest that the listener "move to the country, plant
a little garden, eat a lot of peaches, and try to find Jesus on your own."
I can't remember the last time we all had so much fun. Maybe it was that
4-letter code lollapalooza.
More good cheer from me to you,
Joe Meche
Bellingham
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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 15:31:29 -0800
From: "Eugene and Nancy Hunn" <enhunn323 at comcast.net>
Subject: [Tweeters] JANUARY 4, 2007 KING COUNTY RUSTY BLACKBIRD
To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
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Tweets,
I spent the morning birding the Snoqualmie Valley from Duvall to Fall City. Highlights include:
RUSTY BLACKBIRD, 1 male, in a flock of several hundred red-wings and Brewer's with the swan flock (on NE 60th St., about 1/2 mile west of SR 203 just north of Carnation.
TRUMPETER SWANS, 310 on NE 60th and another 24 nw of Duvall along West Snoqualmie River Rd. Mostly Trumpeters but ca. 10 or more Tundras in the big flock, one with a blue neck band, previously reported. No sign of the Bewick's reported there by Rob Conway last week.
SNOW GOOSE, 1 immature with ca. 1000 Canadas [plus ca. 10 Greater White-fronts and a few Cacklers] at the Nestle Experimental Station (aka Carnation Farms)].
For the goose-freaks, there appeared to be two DUSKY CANADA GEESE with a flock of 250 Canada's ne of the junction of Novelty Hill Rd. and West Snoqualmie Valley Rd., sw of Duvall.
WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS, 4, three at the double 90 degree bend in W. Snoqualmie Valley Rd. at the south edge of the SAS Carnation Marsh property and another along 100th St. nw of Sykes Lake. A pair of PEREGRINES and an AMERICAN KESTREL were nw of Sykes Lake also.
The RUSTY BLACKBIRD is my first for King County. It was mostly black but with crown, nape and upper back brown, supercilium buffy, flanks and sides of chest irregularly barred pale, iris nearly white.
Gene Hunn
18476 47th Pl. NE
Lake Forest Park, WA 98155
enhunn323 at comcast.net
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Message: 7
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 17:10:30 -0700
From: Cliff Drake <cliff at cliffdrake.net>
Subject: RE: [Tweeters] Spelling of wigeon/widgeon
To: dave templeton <crazydave65 at inbox.com>
Cc: tweeters at u.washington.edu
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Are we abusing the subjunctive now?
The thing is, we all know what a "Stellar's Jay and an Eurasian Widgeon
is no matter how they are spelled. Or should I have said what
"Stellar's Jays and Eurasian Widgeons are.
Some think Herr Steller was not stellar
====================
Cliff Drake
Seattle WA (Ballard)
cliff at cliffdrake.net
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Spelling of wigeon/widgeon
> From: dave templeton <crazydave65 at inbox.com>
> Date: Thu, January 04, 2007 2:27 pm
> To: Paul Moorehead <pjm at sos.net>, tweeters at u.washington.edu
>
> but then, too, if the statement proposed is known to be untrue now, the statement becomes conditional, and the proper verb form is past tense -- thus, properly phrased the statement would, as we all know, have properly been 'if it were a stellar jay' . . ..
>
> [grade c-, too many commas. the old ways die hard.]
>
> regards,
>
> dave tee
>
> crazydave65atinboxdotcom
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pjm at sos.net
> > Sent: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 09:46:29 -0800
> > To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> > Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Spelling of wigeon/widgeon
> >
> > And, as we all know, if it was a stellar jay the adjective would not
> > be capitalized. :)
> >
> > Just another star-crossed corvid aficionado,
> >
> > Paul Moorehead
> > Guemes
> > pjm AT sos dot net
> >
> > On Jan 3, 2007, at 9:04 PM, Rachel wrote:
> >
> > However, I think it does indicate a certain lack of seriousness
> > (my definition of it, anyway) when birders who no longer are
> > beginners can't be bothered to learn the correct names and/or
> > spellings for birds. "Stellar Jay" just about drives me crazy.
> >>
> >> Rachel Lawson
> >> Seattle
> >> RachelWL at msn.com
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
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Message: 8
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 16:13:19 -0800
From: Daniel Corcoran <dancorcoran at gmail.com>
Subject: [Tweeters] Anna's Hummingbird...Finally!
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
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I live in downtown Seattle, where birding (especially bird feeding)
can be challenging, to say the least. I've had a standard Perky Pet
hummingbird feeder hanging on my deck for about six months with no
luck. I've cleaned it weekly, tied a red ribbon around it, surrounded
it with plants favored by hummers - but nothing. I work from home
(most of the time sitting within eyesight of the feeder) and the
sugar water level never goes down. Hummers can be stealthy, but I
know they haven't been to my feeder.
Until today. When a bit of motion caught the corner of my eye this
afternoon, I looked up to see a female Anna's drinking from the
feeder. She's been back four times--make it five, as I type--in the
last twenty minutes and even perched for a spell on one of my hanging
plants.
I had to share this little victory with someone who could appreciate it.
Dan
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Message: 9
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 16:35:41 -0800
From: "Kelly Cassidy" <lostriver at completebbs.com>
Subject: RE: [Tweeters] Spelling of wigeon/widgeon
To: "'dave templeton'" <crazydave65 at inbox.com>, "'Paul Moorehead'"
<pjm at sos.net>, <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
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> but then, too, if the statement proposed is known to be
> untrue now, the statement becomes conditional, and the proper
> verb form is past tense -- thus, properly phrased the
> statement would, as we all know, have properly been 'if it
> were a stellar jay' . . ..
>
> [grade c-, too many commas. the old ways die hard.]
>
> regards,
>
> dave tee
Grade D+. No capitalization
Regards,
Kelly Cassidy
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Message: 10
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 16:55:47 -0800
From: Steve Ellis <sellis at coup.wednet.edu>
Subject: [Tweeters] "Ducking The Issue"
To: Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Message-ID: <C1C2E213.2981%sellis at coup.wednet.edu>
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I thought I?d offer this ?overheard? from my Padilla Bay CBC scouting trip:
An elderly woman at the Cornet Bay Marina turned to her soon to be surf
smelt- jigging husband and commented on the cute ?duck family?. I glanced
out to see a male Common Goldeneye swimming away from the pier followed
closely by 6-7 female Buffleheads. I ducked the issue by not
responding.........
Steve Ellis
Coupeville ( where the wind reigns once again), Wa
sellis at coup.wednet.edu
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Message: 11
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 17:28:08 -0800
From: "Eugene and Nancy Hunn" <enhunn323 at comcast.net>
Subject: [Tweeters] addemdum to King County report for today
To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
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Tweets,
I forgot one of the better birds of the day:
COMMON RENDPOLL, one bird flew over calling, touched down briefly, then flew off, about 1 mile nw of Fall City.
Gene Hunn.
18476 47th Pl. NE
Lake Forest Park, WA 98155
enhunn323 at comcast.net
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Message: 12
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 17:43:06 -0800 (PST)
From: Brett Wolfe <m_lincolnii at yahoo.com>
Subject: [Tweeters] Nisqually RFI
To: Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
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Hiya tweets,
Well, it's finally gonna happen. I have lived in the Seattle area for over 20 years now, and have been a moderate to serious birder for the past 10. And after all these years, I am making my first trip down to Nisqually with a friend on Sunday. Shocking, I know. I've been to the Skagit many times, been out to the coast repeatedly, done tons of birding around the state, but never hit the backyard NWR. Until now.
Anyway, I would like to know if anyone is seeing anything particularly special down there now. We will of course be scanning all waterways, likely hideouts and whatnot, but knowing some of the possibilities to look for would be nice.
Thanks in advance for your help in making my first pilgrimage to Nisqually a good one! Oh, and good birding!
Brett A. Wolfe
Seattle, WA
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Message: 13
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 18:42:48 -0800
From: <ronpatdexter at msn.com>
Subject: [Tweeters] Snowy Owls - Not
To: "tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>,
"Inland-nw-birders at uidaho.edu Univ" <Inland-nw-birders at uidaho.edu>
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I spent today driving the West Plains and the roads N and S of hwy 2 looking for Snowy Owls. I didn't find any, nor any Snow Buntings, falcons, Rosy Finches etc. Maybe later in the month or early Feb.
Ron Dexter
Spokane, Wa.
Email: (Ronpatdexter at msn.com)
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Message: 14
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 19:05:45 -0800
From: "Marv Breece" <mbreece at earthlink.net>
Subject: [Tweeters] no Slaty-backed Gull today
To: "Tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
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Today I was at the mouth of the Green River in Renton from about 1:45 until 5:00 in search of the Slaty-backed Gull. No luck. There was a Glaucous Gull.
But the afternoon was not without a highlight. While we were searching for the slaty-backed, Kevin Aanerud heard, then spotted a Snow Bunting in flight. The bird circled the river mouth before flying out of sight.
It was a good day.
Marv Breece
Seattle, WA
mbreece at earthlink.net
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Message: 15
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:22:04 -0800
From: "Scott Atkinson" <scottratkinson at hotmail.com>
Subject: [Tweeters] Red Crossbills
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
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Dennis:
We missed 'em on the Everett-Marysville CBC, but just east of the count
circle we've got a regular flock of 25 or so Red Crossbills here at the
place in n. Lake Stevens since about late October (they had been absent in
the previous six months or so), the birds associated with the crowns of tall
W. Red-Cedar. They were pretty much absent around Sequim during the same
period, but our WDR party (west of Dungeness River, just north of 101) found
12 on the Sequim-Dungeness CBC Dec 18. So I think foothill or mid-montane
coniferous habitat near here or over there should produce a few, but this is
definitely not an "up" period for the species locally.
Scott Atkinson
Lake Stevens
mail to: scottratkinson at hotmail.com
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Message: 16
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 20:05:33 -0800
From: "Bob Whitney" <rlw at cablespeed.com>
Subject: [Tweeters] Point Wilson,Quimper Peninsula, Yard Birds
To: "Tweeters at U. Washington. Edu" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
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Point Wilson -1240-1400 hrs., wind 20 gusts to 40 mph, swell 6 ft., High
clouds, sunny, Temp: 44, High incoming tide.
Point Wilson
Double-crested Cormorant 4, Pelagic Cormorant 8, Common Murre 14, Ancient
Murrelet 2, Common Loon 1, Pacific Loon 2,
Bufflehead 5, Harlequin Duck 3, Sanderling 1, Surf Scoter 3, Glaucous-winged
Gull 23, Glaucous Gull 4 and Red-breasted Merganser 4.
One California Sea Lion thrashing what looked like a Dog fish.
When I was getting ready to leave two guys were talking about going out to
surf the break on the inside of the point, but it was just talk. I would
have stayed to get images of that. On the way out of the park one of the
guys was stopped by the park ranger, being administered a field sobriety
test.
Quimper Peninsula
There is a small lake at the corner of Discovery Bay road and Cape George
road where this observation was taken.
Mallard 12, Northern Shoveler 8, Green-winged Teal 12, American Wigeon 78,
Bufflehead 6 and Trumpeter Swan 7.
Yard Birds
Steller's Jay 3, Varied Thrush 3, Spotted Towhee 1, Dark-eyed Junco 26,
Golden-crowned Kinglet 12 and Northern Flicker 6.
Bob Whitney
Port Townsend, WA
mailto:rlw at cablespeed.com
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Message: 17
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 20:12:16 -0800
From: dave templeton <crazydave65 at inbox.com>
Subject: RE: [Tweeters] Spelling of wigeon/widgeon
To: Kelly Cassidy <lostriver at completebbs.com>, "'Paul Moorehead'"
<pjm at sos.net>, tweeters at u.washington.edu
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arggghhhhhh!!
capital punishment. :p
regards,
t
crazydave65atinboxdotcom
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lostriver at completebbs.com
> Sent: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 16:35:41 -0800
> To: crazydave65 at inbox.com, pjm at sos.net, tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: RE: [Tweeters] Spelling of wigeon/widgeon
>
>> but then, too, if the statement proposed is known to be
>> untrue now, the statement becomes conditional, and the proper
>> verb form is past tense -- thus, properly phrased the
>> statement would, as we all know, have properly been 'if it
>> were a stellar jay' . . ..
>>
>> [grade c-, too many commas. the old ways die hard.]
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> dave tee
>
> Grade D+. No capitalization
>
> Regards,
> Kelly Cassidy
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Message: 18
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 23:34:36 EST
From: Scrubjay323 at aol.com
Subject: [Tweeters] Nisqually NWR 1/4/07
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
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Tweets,
Today 7 of us enjoyed a pleasant, if cold, walk at Nisqually. At least the
forcast rain never occurred! Highlight included 4 sightings of NORTHERN
SHRIKE and 3 EURASIAN WIGEON in the large mixed flock of waterfowl behind the twin
barns.
The NORTHERN SHRIKE sighting were of 2, possibly 3, birds. We saw the same
adult off the trail to McAllister Creek on the way out to the creek and in a
different location on the way back to the parking lot. We saw a juvenile
behind the twin barns and he (it?) got pretty close to the viewing platform
affording great views. We saw another (the same?) juvenile about an hour or so
later near the start of the ring dike trail.
We also searched a flock of PINE SISKIN and GOLDFINCH that was near the
closed gate just past the ring dike for COMMON REDPOLL but could not find any.
They were last reported just before Christmas.
NORTHERN HARRIERS and RED-TAILED HAWKS were very common as were the usual
wintering waterfowl. There is plenty of water available, so the ducks are
pretty scattered. We had COMMON MERGANSERS and COMMON GOLDENEYE on both
McAllister Creek and the Nisqually River. There was a female LESSER SCAUP on
McAllister Creek.
We had a SHARP-SHINNED HAWK make a pass (failed) at a small flock of
GOLDEN-CROWNED SPARROWS along the trial out toward the ring dike and saw several
small flocks of KINGLETS, both RUBY-CROWNED and GOLDEN-CROWNED. Sparrows were a
bit scarce, but we did see SONG and GLODEN-CROWNED, as well as JUNCO and
SPOTTED TOWHEE.
All told we saw 44 species on a relatively quiet day. Mammals seen were
EASTERN GRAY SQUIRRELS and a HARBOR SEAL in the Nisqually River.
Remember, the outer dike remains closed until January 29th, when waterfowl
season closes.
Until next week....
Phil Kelley
Lacey, WA
scrubjay323 at aol.com
360-459-1499
" We were few and they were many. Now we are many and they are few"
Confucius
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Message: 19
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 20:41:13 -0800
From: "washingtonbirder.Knittle Knittle"
<washingtonbirder at hotmail.com>
Subject: [Tweeters] Swamp Sparrow--Woodland
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
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Today while inspecting a dairy near Woodland I heard a Swamp Sparrow give
it's call note. This dairy is on Pekin Rd. in Woodland and close to the
Lewis River with a dike between. This dike is gravel and drivable and the
Swamp Sparrow might be heard from the dike.
Also while working earlier this morning on Puget Island I saw 1 Great Egret
just where the road crosses Welcome Slough from the Cross Dike Rd. There
were 3 White-tailed Kites on Puget Island and I saw two in Cowlitz Co. just
east of Willowgrove turnoff on the truck route. Seems like a lot for not
doing any birding or stopping along the way.
Ken Knittle
Washington Birder newsletter
2604 NE 80th Street
Vancouver, WA 98665
360-574-2590
mailto:washingtonbirder "at" hotmail.com
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Message: 20
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 20:38:56 -0800
From: "craigco" <2cbird at hughes.net>
Subject: [Tweeters] Spokane Bird Alert Jan 4, 2007
To: "Tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>, "Inland NW Birders"
<inland-nw-birders at uidaho.edu>
Message-ID: <4589C11E0024EB71 at n016.sc0.he.tucows.com> (added by
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Jan 4, 2007
The following interesting birds have been recently reported in Spokane
County.
Good numbers (60) of PINE GROSBEAKS are around the Little Spokane River.
Try the Painted Rocks Trail.
A few COMMON REDPOLLS have been reported at the confluence of the Little
Spokane River, Dec 30, and at the Silver Lake boat launch, Jan 1.
A CROW (assume COMMON) was at the Mt Spokane condos Jan 1 for an apparent
first ever for the State Park.
A flock of 800 to 1,000 BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS was near the Indian Hills Golf
Course Dec 30.
The Dec 30, Spokane CBC produced at least 81 species including ROCK WREN,
LONG-BILLED MARSH WREN, VIRGINIA RAIL, SNOW GOOSE, WHITE-CR SPARROW,
SAW-WHET, SHORT-EARED, BARN & PYGMY OWLS.
A SAY'S PHOEBE was at Spangle Jan 4. I'd vote for it being a wintering
bird.
The Spokane group ended at 247 species for 2006 in what must have been the
most birding effort ever in the county.
Good Birding in 2007!
CraigCorder
Cheney
mailto:2cbird at hughes.net
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Message: 21
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 21:13:48 -0800
From: "carenp" <carenp at totalise.co.uk>
Subject: [Tweeters] [ Article ] the Oregon Birding Trail
To: "tweets" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Message-ID: <GCEFIMEAFJOACGBCELFDOENBDMAA.carenp at totalise.co.uk>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/outdoors/2003507773_nwworegon04.html?s
yndication=rss
"Duarte was surprised to learn last year from one of the trail's creators
that WildSpring's five cabins share land with Pacific-slope flycatchers,
tree swallows, chestnut-backed chickadees, golden-crowned kinglets,
Swainson's thrush, wrentits and a half-dozen other feathered varieties.
Birder Steven Shunk recognized all their calls in just a few minutes."
00 caren
http://www.parkgallery.org
george davis creek, north fork
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Message: 22
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 21:28:15 -0800
From: "Brad Waggoner" <wagtail at sounddsl.com>
Subject: [Tweeters] Black-headed Gull - No
To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
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Hi all,
To my knowledge, the Black-headed Gull frequenting the waters on the
southwest side of Bainbridge Island has not been seen in the past four days.
I have not been able to find it during my lunch hour visits. I believe it
was last seen on Sunday, December 31 at a fair distance toward the pens on
the other side of the channel.
Cheers,
Brad Waggoner
Bainbridge Island, WA
mailto:wagtail at sounddsl.com
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Message: 23
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 22:24:07 -0800
From: "Marv Breece" <mbreece at earthlink.net>
Subject: Fw: [Tweeters] no Slaty-backed Gull today
To: "Tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Message-ID: <007401c73092$1b400f50$2101a8c0 at dell4sfk4vlgso>
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Correction: Cedar River, not Green River.
Marv Breece
Seattle, WA
mbreece at earthlink.net
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From: Marv Breece
To: Tweeters
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 7:05 PM
Subject: [Tweeters] no Slaty-backed Gull today
Today I was at the mouth of the Green River in Renton from about 1:45 until 5:00 in search of the Slaty-backed Gull. No luck. There was a Glaucous Gull.
But the afternoon was not without a highlight. While we were searching for the slaty-backed, Kevin Aanerud heard, then spotted a Snow Bunting in flight. The bird circled the river mouth before flying out of sight.
It was a good day.
Marv Breece
Seattle, WA
mbreece at earthlink.net
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Message: 24
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 22:27:37 -0800
From: "Rob McNair-Huff" <rob at whiterabbits.com>
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Red Crossbills
To: Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
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I wrote to Julie with this information earlier, but I wanted to add that
we did see a flock of 30 Red Crossbills at Point Defiance Park in Tacoma
during the CBC for Tahoma Audubon on Dec. 16. This was the largest flock
seen in that part of Tacoma in quite a few years on the local CBC, but
its possible that the birds in the area were gathered in a larger flock
since the CBC was held on the day after the wind storm last month.
Although we heard and saw small numbers of crossbills at various
locations in the park during the CBC, the whole flock was conveniently
gathered near some cedar trees along the road at the back of the parking
lot for the Point Defiance Zoo at the end of our walk through the park
on Dec. 16. I haven't had a chance to check the area again since the
CBC, but there is a good possibility that at least some of the
crossbills are still in the area.
Rob McNair-Huff ---------- Tacoma, WA
Author of Washington Disasters (Globe Pequot, 2006), Birding Washington
(Falcon Publishing, 2004)
and Insider's Guide to the Olympic Peninsula (Globe Pequot, 2001)
Mac Net Journal ---------- http://www.macnetjournal.com
Support your local Audubon chapter
www.tahomaaudubon.org
>Dennis:
>
>We missed 'em on the Everett-Marysville CBC, but just east of the count
>circle we've got a regular flock of 25 or so Red Crossbills here at the
>place in n. Lake Stevens since about late October (they had been absent in
>the previous six months or so), the birds associated with the crowns of tall
>W. Red-Cedar. They were pretty much absent around Sequim during the same
>period, but our WDR party (west of Dungeness River, just north of 101) found
>12 on the Sequim-Dungeness CBC Dec 18. So I think foothill or mid-montane
>coniferous habitat near here or over there should produce a few, but this is
>definitely not an "up" period for the species locally.
>
>Scott Atkinson
>Lake Stevens
>mail to: scottratkinson at hotmail.com
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Message: 25
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 07:55:24 -0800
From: "Greg and Sally Toffic" <toffic.family at verizon.net>
Subject: [Tweeters] slate-colored juncos
To: "Tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
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Yesterday morning there were two slate-colored juncos feeding on the ground within a foot of each other. This was in the boat launch parking lot at the corner near the partially submerged plank leading to the fields. Also with the juncos were 3 o4 4 song sparrows that seemed to be redder overall than our usual song sparrows.
I looked for the Northern waterthrush, American tree sparrow and pine grosbeaks but was not able to locate either of them.
Greg Toffic
Everett, WA
425-760-8049
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Message: 26
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 11:27:42 -0800
From: ". KDB ." <buhrdz at hotmail.com>
Subject: [Tweeters] 2006 Grays Harbor CBC Results
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
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A meassage from Bob Morse:
2006 Grays Harbor CBC Results
42 observers tallied 48,104 birds (131 species) on Saturday, December 23rd
during the Grays Harbor Christmas Bird Count. The weather was unusual ? it
was quite pleasant with temperatures to 48 degrees and little wind. It was a
great day for a coastal CBC.
The highlights of the day included:
? 5,777 American Wigeon, four times what we normally get on our CBC.
? Mallard counts were also up ? this year?s 1840 is a new count record.
? Surf Scoters also hit a new count high (632) as well as Common Goldeneye
(355).
? An immature White-tailed Kite spotted by Alex and Brien Meilleur along the
John?s River is the first record in almost 20 years. Amazingly, Dianna Moore
had an adult kite in Ocean Shores just a few days later.
? Patrick and Ruth Sullivan had a Red-shouldered Hawk for the second year.
? Where did all the gulls go? Our gull counts were way down this year.
? We only had one alcid, a Common Murre, continuing a disturbing trend of
very few alcids along our coast.
? 19 Anna?s Hummingbirds points to a continuing range expansion of this
species along the coast.
? A Harris?s Sparrow discovered by Bill Shelmerdine?s team at the end of
Elizabeth Street in Westport was a great find and new species for our count.
? Large flocks of Pine Siskins included up to 18 Common Redpolls this year.
? We only had two owls during count day (Short-eared and Great Horned) but a
Snowy and Barred Owl were seen in Ocean Shores during count week.
This will be the last time I will serve as the compiler for the Grays Harbor
CBC. I am looking for someone (or two co-compliers) to take over for me
after 16 years as compiler for this count. If you are interested in helping
out as the compiler or co-complier for the Grays Harbor Christmas Bird
Count, please give me a call at 360-943-8600 or email me at
rwmorse at comcast.net.
Happy birding,
Bob Morse
Olympia, WA
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Message: 27
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 11:48:39 -0800 (PST)
From: jora at riseup.net
Subject: [Tweeters] Big Bend NP
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
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I am planning a trip to Big Bend at the end of March and would love any
suggestions or information from anyone who has been there or knows the
area. I have 8 days, am on a tight budget and have specific questions
about a few target species. If you can help please email me directly.
jora at riseup.net.
Thanks.
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