Tweeters,

I decided to stop by the Muck Creek bridge on Fort Lewis today after the Wed
Nisqually NWR walk, and hit the bridge at exactly noon. As soon as I turned
off my truck engine, I heard the YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT (YBCH) calling from
about 25 yards south of where I parked. I then spotted the bird on a limb in
the sunshine about 20 feet up on the lower branches of a large Douglas-fir
to the east of the road. The bird chattered a few times, and another bird -
same shape and size as the bird that was singing - came in behind some
branches very close to the singer. Unfortunately, I couldn't see colors,
etc., of this bird, just a silhouette. When the singing bird flew north into
the shrub growth, the "other" bird also flew off with it, passing behind the
Douglas-fir - again I couldn't see coloration. Because I had some perishable
food in my truck, I had to beat feet home to the 'fridge, otherwise, I would
have stuck around to try to see if the second bird is also a YBCH.



Perhaps tomorrow I'll get a better view.



May all your birds be identified (and in this case one of them wasn't),



Denis DeSilvis

Roy, WA

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