Tweets,

This morning about 11am, I found, along with Warren and Sue Terrell, a male
HERMIT WARBLER in the Davenport Cemetery (Lincoln County). I'd heard and
seen a couple of TOWNSENDS WARBLERS, and Warren played his iPod so that they
could see them also. Instead, out popped the Hermit, who continued to dance
around the edges of a conifer no more than 20 feet away from us for about a
minute and a half. It was NOT a hybrid, as it had a pure yellow head, and
clean white underparts with no streaking. Warren's camera was in his car,
and by the time he retrieved it, we were not able to coax the warbler back
into the open.

The Gray Flycatchers reported earlier in the weekend from this location
seemed to have departed, and instead there were at least 10 HERMIT THRUSHES.
The resident GREAT HORNED OWLS had 3 fluffy young branchers.

I'm not sure if this is notable, but I saw multiple EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVES
in Davenport, Harrington, and Sprague (all Lincoln County). I've seen them
before in Davenport, but not in the other two towns. And the beat goes on.

MaryFrances Mathis

Kirkland

mf.mathis at verizon.net



MaryFrances