Hi Tweeters,


Despite still not caught up on sleep and an after work event I couldn't help go back to the Emerald Downs spot with the beautiful sun. While looking with another birder a male Lazuli Bunting flew into the same bush I photographed the Indigo in yesterday, about 100 feet out and to the right of the 2nd pullout. It only stayed briefly. I drove down towards the barn and out of the corner of my eye I thought I saw the Indigo but it flew, I could not relocate it, but did refind the Lazuli near the barn. Here is my 2nd set of directions again...



I admit to being a poor direction giver, with road names I am hopeless. Sorry about this but I will try to elaborate more here. The road where the bunting is directly parallels and runs directly alongside of Hwy 167. From the north the 15 th street exit go east. The very first left goes right back onto the freeway, don't do this! I have done this more times than I want to admit trying to get to this birding area. You will say some not very nice words when you find yourself back on the freeway! The second left takes you onto a street that I do not know the name of but once you curve down into the flat there is a business on the right with a very random but useful garbage can right by the road. Then there is a windbreak of trees on the right. You will be directly alongside 167 at this point. By the tree windbreak is a pull out. I stopped there first and did not find the bunting. Further down past a canal or stream is a second deep and
rectangular shaped pull out on the right. Looking to the east you can see the Emerald Downs building in the distance. Looking closer in you can see a large pond and even closer offset slightly to the right is some shrubbery maybe 100 feet out. I saw the bunting in this shrubbery and also in a shrub very close to me directly to the right and it also went into some blackberry bushes far to the left where I never actually saw the bird.

Good luck everyone and I hope these supplemental directions help!




Kathy
Roosting in Kent, near Lake Meridian
(chukarbird at yahoo dot com)