.....Brush Prairie is an unincorporated rural community about 15-20 miles north-northeast of Vancouver, Wash..---3-4 miles south of Battle Ground, Wash.
....Haven't seen the Varied Thrush again---since yesterday's sitings.. Heard several hundred CANADA GEESE flying overhead at dusk, heading wet-northwest to roosting areas---presumably near Ridgefield and the wildlife area there. Hundreds--sometimes I think *thousands*, in numerous individual flocks, fly over Brush Prairie with great noise, just after dawn, towards the feeding areas in the western areas of the Columbia gorge, and.......come back overhead coming west at dusk. For some reason, haven't heard them pass overhead hardly at all---till tonight.
.....An adult BALD EAGLE has been 'hanging around' over the open farmland west of town the last few days. The foothills of the Cascades are covered with snow down to the 800-1000ft elevation, and are a beautiful backdrop to the lowlands.. There so much standing water around that the ducks are spread pretty far apart, not in concentrated colonies like usual.. Lots of SPARROWS, BLACK-CAPPED CHIckADEES, OREG. JUNCOS AND FINCHES ---the usual "urban" winter dwellers.

.....Cheers....Gerald Hamilton
Brush Prairie, Wash.
geraldham at comcast.net