hi all ... went yesterday morning (friday) to LaFrambois Road
(Shillapoo Wildlife Area) to look for the Phoebe and no luck ... in
fact, other than Ruby-crowned Kinglets and Flickers I didn't see any
birds at all !!!!!!!! ... went back this morning and it was busy !!!
... quite a few birds ... saw the Black Phoebe with his/her entourage
of about 10-15 Yellow-rumps ... zipped home for lunch and a couple of
hours later went back out ... this time saw the group of Yellow-rumps
but no Phoebe ...

when I did see the Phoebe it was 2 locations ... first I parked
directly across from the big oak tree and just waited and scanned the
frozen pond (flooded lowland) ... the Phoebe popped out from the
distant hillside/dike ... then he/she moved north (left) and I had to
move the car to an opening in the trees --- parked directly under the
powerline ... the Phoebe liked the scrub trees in the center of the
flooded/ponded field ...

Lyn
Vancouver, Washington





At 05:21 PM 1/3/2011, Scott Carpenter wrote:
>At 4:20 this afternoon, I came across a single BLACK PHOEBE along La
>Frambois Rd. in Vancouver, Clark County, Washington. It was on the
>NE side of the road, feeding along with several YELLOW-RUMPED
>WARBLERS on the surface of a frozen pond. This is directly across
>the road from the field frequented by the Swainson's Hawk in December of 2008.
>
>Perhaps this is one of the two Black Phoebes that were seen at
>Ridgefield NWR recently.
>
>--
>Scott Carpenter
>Portland, Oregon

Lyn Topinka
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