My nemesis bird was the American Dipper. I kept "dipping" on finding any. Then one day opportunity and location converged and I found a whole family in Kenmore--not that far from my house.

Christine Southwick
Shoreline, WA
clsouthwick at pugetsoundbirds.org


I long to accomplish great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty
to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.
The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves
of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes
of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller

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On Fri, 9 Jul 2010, LINDA PHILLIPS wrote:

> Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 12:17:30 -0700
> From: LINDA PHILLIPS <linda_phillips1252 at msn.com>
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: [Tweeters] nemesis bird
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> Hi Tweeters,
> I have a nemesis bird story too. I had been birding for a year or two when I was out on a Eastside Audubon field trip and for some reason the conversation was about Brewer's blackbirds. I mentioned that I had not seen one yet. The Leader told me they are common birds easily found in parking lots. She suggested I look in the Costco lot. Well since I work in Kirkland its no problem for me to swing through the Costco lot on my way home. I did so on several occasions and never saw a BRBL. Finally I gave up going to Costco. Eventually I did see several in front of the Pet Smart in Woodinville where employees had put out bird seed in the parking strips.
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> It seems that the Costco birds have expanded their range because a week or two ago I began to see Brewer's Blackbirds in the Park Place Center lot. Every day when go to my car I see those bright eyed birds and remember how hard I worked to get one on my life list.
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> Linda Phillips
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> Kenmore WA
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