Tweeters,

For those keeping an eye on spring, you might be interested to see the arrival pattern for upper Scatter Creek in Thurston County. Here are dates for the first 2008 arrivals actually sighted or heard, as well as a few other seasonal firsts:

1/27: Northern Pygmy-Owl hooting (not elicited)
2/11: Pacific Chorus-Frogs begin singing
2/13: first singing American Robin, probable arriving migrant
2/18: Tree Swallow
2/20: first local singing Brewer's Blackbird; lunar eclipse
3/3: Violet-green Swallow
3/6: Rufous Hummingbird; first Townsend's Chipmunks become active
3/14: first hooting Northern Saw-whet Owl (continued every night for about a week)
3/15: Turkey Vulture; Band-tailed Pigeon pair
4/4: male American Goldfinch, first at feeders
4/6: Savannah Sparrow singing
4/10: Common Yellowthroat singing
4/11: Orange-crowned Warbler; Northern Rough-winged Swallow; singing pugetensis White-crowned Sparrow (absent locally in winter)
4/12: Greater Yellowlegs
4/13: Brown-headed Cowbird; Barn Swallow; Black-throated Gray Warblers; (flock of 40-50 Audubon's Yellow-rumped Warblers); Eurasian Collared-Dove
4/14: rainshowers so far


Good birding, Bob









Bob Sundstrom
Tenino, Washington
ixoreus at scattercreek.com