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> From: Elizabeth Edgerton <lizedge at mac.com>
> Date: August 25, 2009 7:02:40 PM PDT
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Cc: innkeeper at kangaroohouse.com, bobcello Edgerton <bobcello at aol.com>
> Subject: Orcas Island - Pine Grosbeak,Red Crossbills,West.Wood Pewee
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> Hi tweeters,
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> This weekend my husband, Bob, and I had a beautiful time on Orcas
> Island. I thought I'd pass along that the innkeeper, Charles, at
> the Kangaroo Inn, who is fairly knowledgeable about birds, and
> turned his backyard into an official wildlife sanctuary, considered
> with us what kind of bird - new to him - that he had seen in his yard.
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> As we followed his description and looked it up in Sibley, it was
> quite certainly a Pine Grosbeak - the reddish color, the beak, and
> in my Nat'l Geographic Birds of Western NA, describes - "unwary and
> approachable- it was feeding on the top of a tarp covering
> something in the yard, and was not intimidated by their approach.
> I have no idea if they are common or not on Orcas, so thought I'd
> alert Tweeters.
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> There were the usuals at his various feeders. Also, appearing on
> the deck railing was what I believe was a Western Wood-Pewee.
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> On a hike we took on one of the Mountain Lake trails, we
> encountered a flock of Red-Crossbills (identified by a
> knowledgeable passer-by. We heard them or other flocks several
> times as we walked along the trail.
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> Elizabeth Edgerton
> lizedge at mac.com
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