greetings,

a new "yard bird" for us today - we had a sandhill crane flying high (heading southwest) over our yard in olympia ~3:30 this afternoon, on 18th ave NE, off south bay road.

we also had two juvenile sharp-shinned hawks sitting a few feet apart on a tree in the yard this morning, and later one sat on the fence within 10' of 4 steller's jays feeding on one of our feeders. the jays were obviously very interested in the hawk but continued to come and go from the feeder until the hawk moved a bit.

robin baird
olympia, wa
rwbaird (at) cascadiaresearch.org