Subject: [Tweeters] Nesting Pacific-slope Flycatcher
Date: Jun 21 17:54:31 2007
From: Douglas Canning - dcanning at zhonka.net


Nesting Pacific-slope Flycatcher

This afternoon I noticed a small, mossy nest built atop a roof beam
next to a rafter on my open woodshed. Sometime later I saw the bird
sitting on the beam next to the nest, a drab brownish bird with a
dingy-pale yellowish breast, and nondescript blackish bill. And later
yet I got to observe it sitting on the nest at length and confirmed the
complete, vivid, white eye rings. Also seen in the near-by Alder
canopy, and got to confirm all my previous notes: a Pacific-slope
Flycatcher. And this is the first I?ve known they?re here!

Other nesting birds on or adjacent my place: American Robin (of
course), House Finch, Purple Finch, Black-headed Grosbeak, Red-breasted
Nuthatch, and Rufous Hummingbird. Suspected: Swainson?s Thrush, Song
Sparrow. Nest-building activity: Green Heron (two, carrying sticks).

A most interesting spring here near the Black Lake swamps in Thurston
County.

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Douglas Canning
Olympia, Washington
dcanning at zhonka.net
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