Hi Tweeters,

With the last paper graded and feeling like Sisyphus finally pushing that damn boulder over the top of the hill, I headed over to Kent Ponds around 2:30 this afternoon for a quick look around. Driving down a side street that ends near the power line path by the south observation tower, a Bald Eagle was overhead being escorted out by a couple of crow bouncers. The wind was really blowing and it was spitting rain on and off. Limping to the tower (I recently broke a toe), I could hear a Lazuli Bunting in the trees adjacent to the last building before coming to the tower, but it wouldn't show itself. Up in the tower, I looked and listened for the the Yellow-breasted Chat that Carol Schultz had posted about a few days ago, but no luck. The wind was really drowning out much of the bird calls, and I suspect that many of them were hunkered down. A few times, when the wind died down, birds would begin to flit about and become more vocal. Some of the other species that I saw or!
heard
included Osprey, Red-tailed Hawk, N. Harrier, Gadwall, Wood Duck, Pied-billed Grebe, Willow Flycatcher, Marsh Wren, Common Yellowthroat, Savannah Sparrow, White-crowned Sparrow, Song Sparrow, A. Goldfinch, House Finch, and Tree Swallow.

As I type this up, there is a Orange-crowned Warbler singing from a Madrone tree in my yard. Good birding,

Lonnie Somer
Olympia,WA
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