Subject: [Tweeters] Battle Ground Night Flight
Date: Sep 19 08:19:44 2007
From: Jim Danzenbaker - jdanzenbaker at gmail.com


Tweeters,

My thrush monitoring has gotten pretty sketchy of late due to lack of sleep
and being out of town but here's another update on Swainson's Thrush
migration over my yard in Battle Ground, Clark County, WA.

This morning between 5:40-6:15, there were about 1-1.5 birds per minute.
Previous mornings have had similar numbers. There's been a steady flow of
non-Swainson's Thrush activity as well. Yellow Warbler seems to be the
dominant species followed by a mixture of mostly unidentified Sparrows. I
am now getting some zonotrichia sparrows flying over evidenced by one
immature White-crowned Sparrow that spent yesterday gorging itself on seed
on the back deck. A Spotted Sandpiper also flew over (3rd one this year). A
pleasant surprise yesterday was a Hermit Thrush in the yard which was a
brand new yard bird and several American Pipits flying over this morning for
a new year yard bird.

On Monday morning at Westport before the WOS pelagic trip, there was a very
healthy passerine migration happening with many Swainson's Thrushes, Yellow
Warblers and lots of sparrows flying over between 4:15 and 6:00 am. It was
interesting to hear a Black Turnstone fly over in the midst of the
Swainson's Thrushes!

Keep your ears skyward.

Jim

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Jim Danzenbaker
Battle Ground, WA
360-723-0345
jdanzenbaker at gmail.com