Subject: [Tweeters] Fill stuff
Date: Jun 23 13:40:40 2009
From: Connie Sidles - constancesidles at gmail.com


Hey tweets, I managed to saw through the chains bolting me to my desk
this month and ran out to the Fill yesterday morning. Best birds of
the day: two Rufous Hummingbirds (now very scarce at the Fill)
hovering around the Wedding Rock; and a Willow Flycatcher singing (if
you can call it that) in the Blue Forest. The flycatcher was in the
dense vegetation that has grown up in this area, so for the longest
time I thought it was a starling. But the song kept coming, and as it
did, it began to sound more and more like a clear "fitz-bew" and less
and less like a rusty radiator's "ftzzz." Finally, the bird flew atop
one of those ridiculous fake snags the restoration students stuck in
amongst their live plants, and I got a clear look. I guess I'll have
to stop calling the fake snags ridiculous.

On another note, several days ago, someone posted seeing a female
Lazuli Bunting at the Fill. Can anyone tell me who that was? I'd like
to include that sighting in the bird record that I'm compiling for my
book about the Fill. - Connie, Seattle

constancesidles at gmail.com