Subject: [Tweeters] Skamania County Migrants
Date: May 2 18:34:42 2011
From: Wilson Cady - gorgebirds at juno.com
Yesterday we had a MERLIN take a bird at our feeders, luckily it was not one of the continuing CASSIN'S FINCHES, as they returned again today. This morning we had a male CALLIOPE HUMMINGBIRD show up at our feeders but that was overshadowed by LEWIS'S WOODPECKER that has continued to visit the suet and corn feeders into the evening. I didn't know that they would eat the rolled corn that we put out for the BAND-TAILED PIGEONS, but it takes a flattened corn kernel up to a branch and then pecks it into pieces small enough to swallow. This is only the second Lewis's we have had on our property in forty years, the last one was in September of 2003. Susan and I drove up to the Spring Creek Fish Hatchery, at Underwood, where the trees and lawns were hopping with hundreds of YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS. Among these butterbuts we spotted about a half dozen NASHVILLE WARBLERS and one bright male YELLOW WARBLER. at Bingen, in Klickitat County, flocks of hundreds of GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE flew over heading west down the Columbia River. We estimated at least 500 birds were in one flock where the skein stretched from the Oregon shore to the Washington side, easily the largest flock of White-fronteds that I have seen in the State. Wilson Cady
Skamania County, WA