Subject: [Tweeters] Re: Seattle Woodland Park Zoo Barred Owls
Date: Jan 11 23:00:48 2011
From: notcalm at comcast.net - notcalm at comcast.net
Kevin,
On the Mercer island CBC, our group was wowed to see the exact same behavior of a GC Kinglet as one of the first birds of the morning. Many were seen and one landed right at our feet and hopped and pecked- what a beauty. We were all delighted- stunned, really. I have never seen them do that. One person speculated that something had blow off the trees in the recent windstorm, which brought them to the ground. Have seen many on tree trunks, including yesterday, just outside my den window.
Always a nice, colorful surprise.
Dan Reiff
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From: "Kevin Purcell" <kevinpurcell at pobox.com>
To: "Kelsey Byers" <kjbyers at uw.edu>
Cc: "Kevin Purcell" <kevinpurcell at pobox.com>, tweeters at u.washington.edu
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 9:59:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Re: Seattle Woodland Park Zoo Barred Owls
On Jan 11, 2011, at 6:19 PM, Kelsey Byers wrote:
> Amusingly, while walking past the wolf exhibit today I saw two golden-crowned kinglets acting just like juncos on the path. Not two feet from me - and very calm! Unusual behavior for those little guys.
I've noticed this a lot over December and into January too.
I don't recall having seen them ground feeding like that before by GC Kinglets. Black-capped Chickadees too do the same thing. I do wonder what they're feeding on though. It can't be hidden larvae. Can it?
The other oddity is having to look twice at tree trunks when the "brown creepers" turn out to be GC Kinglets, Black-capped Chickadees or Bewick's Wrens.
I suspect this is just an observational issue on my part: it's Winter and I wasn't paying attention before.
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