Tweets,



As Kathy Andrich reported yesterday, the female AMERICAN REDSTART at the
Stillwater spot (as described by Hobbs and Anderson; across the field from
the WDFW lot opposite Faye Rd. off SR-203 north of the Stillwater store) is
building her nest with two males in attendance. I watched the female working
on the nest today about noon and saw and heard one male, but he was back in
the distance. The nest is about 8 feet up in the crotch of some twiggy
branches that sprout from hear the base of a cottonwood across the riprap
channel from the viewpoint (which is well worn, so not hard to find once you
bushwhack the 100 yards through six-foot tall grass from the metal bridge. A
RED-EYED VIREO was singing merrily near the spot.



Also, at the traditional spot 0.9 miles north of the Woodinvill-Duvall
Highway on the West Snoqualmie River Rd. (WSRR) spur just west of Duvall,
the WESTERN KINGBIRD pair were quite aggressively defending their nest on
the power pole in front of the house with the green roof. Two male LAZULI
BUNTINGS along the WSRR spur. By the way, I finally decided to look up
"lazuli" in the dictionary to see how it is supposed to be pronounced.
According to my old college Webster's it is LAZ-yoo-lie (the "a" as in
"add"; the "u" as in "unite"; the "i" as in "eye"; my transcription). I've
been saying it wrong all these years! Now. what about "pileated"?



Gene Hunn

18476 47th Pl NE

Lake Forest Park, WA

enhunn323 at comcast.net