Subject: [Tweeters] Migrants passing through Auburn-Enumclaw area
Date: Sep 10 15:43:40 2009
From: Brian Pendleton - kc7wpd at hotmail.com


Had a nice collection of warblers in our back yard (Auburn-Enumclaw area)
yesterday: mostly Orange-crowned (15+) with several Yellow and
Black-throated Gray and one each of Townsend's, Yellow-rumped and Common
Yellowthroat, all but the yellowthroat stocking up on aphids in our poplar
trees. Mixed in with the warblers was a flock of Bushtits whose trilling
alarm calls alerted me to a passing Osprey. Earlier in the morning I had a
flock of 5 Black Swifts moving south overhead (with a couple of Vaux's
swifts closer to treetop level for comparison), while in the dogwood tree
behind the house 2 Pileated Woodpeckers, 7 Swainson's thrushes and a flock
of Cedar Waxwings were feasting on the berries. The seeds they spit out
sounded like sleet falling. The dogwood was a popular spot with a Western
Tanager, 2 Empids (Willow, I think), Western Wood Peewee, a Red-breasted
Sapsucker, several Northern Flickers and a flock of robins also showing up
at different times during the morning. Only the flycatchers weren't eating
berries.



Brian

Kc7wpd at hotmail.com

Auburn, WA