Subject: [Tweeters] Columbia Basin birds
Date: Nov 6 19:10:42 2007
From: vogelfreund at comcast.net - vogelfreund at comcast.net


Hi,

That's too bad about the Brewster Comsat Station. That's where I conveniently got my Brewer's Sparrows and a Sage Thrasher, in the 1980's. The tall sagebrush was awesome.

Phil Hotlen
Bellingham, WA
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Gary Bletsch <garybletsch at yahoo.com>
> Dear Tweeters,
>
> A bit late of a post, but I saw some fun birds on
> Friday-Sunday, November 2-5, 2007.
>
> On a negative note, I was sorry to see that a place
> that offered good birding habitat fifteen years ago or
> so, is now pretty much a bust. I refer to the old
> "Comsat Station," the big dish antennas on the
> Brewster Flats. There is very little sagebrush there
> now, and all I found was a single Western Meadowlark
> and a few House Finches there.
>
> On the other hand, it was truly fine weather, combined
> with a smattering of still-golden aspen leaves,
> yellowing grasses, and red basalt, so there were a lot
> of beautiful sights to see.
>
> Good birding!
>
> Yours truly,
>
> Gary Bletsch
>
> near Lyman (Skagit County), Washington
>
> garybletsch at yahoo.com
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