Hi Tweets: I just returned from a 10-day trip to my native Indiana, and the Skamania County INDIGO BUNTING seems far afield. Perhaps he's a Hoosier?
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In and around Terre Haute, Ind., without visiting anything but city parks and cemeteries, I was able to see and/or hear 38 species, including (highlights in no particular order):
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INDIGO BUNTING
E. MEADOWLARK
GRAY CATBIRD
NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD
NORTHERN CARDINAL
BROWN THRASHER
EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE
WOOD THRUSH
BLUE JAY
EASTERN KINGBIRD
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and five woodpeckers: RED-HEADED WOODPECKER, RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER, FLICKER, DOWNY AND HAIRY WOODPECKER.
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On Saturday and Sunday, my husband (a Forest Service volunteer) and I backpacked up the Elliott Creek Trail to Goat Lake, off the Mountain Loop Highway in Snohomish County. We saw/heard 21 species, including WILSON'S, YELLOW, TOWNSEND'S AND MACGILLIVRAY'S WARBLERS. Although we heard and saw VARIED and SWAINSON'S THRUSH, we did not see nor hear any HERMIT THRUSH. That seemed unusual, as they usually serenade us to sleep in the mountains.?Lots of flowers out, and on a high alpine meadow we spotted a black bear grazing in what appeared by binocular to be?yellow fawn lilies. It's good to be back in the Northwest.
Liz Brown
Edmonds, Wash.?
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