Tweeters,

This morning, I went looking for the Yellow-headed Blackbird at Nisqually (Thurston County) that Bill Shelmerdine saw on Sunday, November 1. It was still present in the same pumpkin field at 8:15 with presumably the same flock of 400-500 Red-winged Blackbirds, Starlings, and Brewer's Blackbirds. The field is located on the south side of I-5 on the Nisqually Cut-Off Road just across from the freeway exit. It's full of broken up pumpkins, against which the yellow coloration of the male Yellow-headed BB blends in quite well.

Gary Wiles
Olympia, WA