Subject: [Tweeters] Great morning in Shoreline
Date: May 18 11:32:43 2009
From: Jordan Gunn - uwjag21 at yahoo.com


Hey Tweets,

The morning weather brought some wonderful birds to my backyard area in Shoreline.? In just one of the neighbor's trees in the back were 3 WESTERN TANAGERs, both male and female, a beautiful male BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK,?about one or two each of YELLOW, ORANGE-CROWNED, and WILSON'S WARBERs, and at the very top of the same tree, one WESTERN WOOD-PEWEE and one OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER doing their things, swooping at insects and returning to their perches.?

In addition, WARBLING VIREOs were everywhere, a male and female TOWNSEND'S WARBLER visited, and a flyover COMMON RAVEN let off a quork as it was being chased by 2 AMERICAN CROWS.? I had flyover RED CROSSBILLS on 2 different occasions.? A GOLDEN-CROWNED?KINGLET was singing high in the trees, and I had all of the usual visitors as well.? I could hear even more birds singing but unfortunately couldn't identify all of the songs.

Good birding,

Jordan A. Gunn
Shoreline, WA