Subject: [Tweeters] Last (2011) and First (2012)
Date: Jan 1 10:16:51 2012
From: Greg and Sally Toffic - toffic.family at frontier.com


First of year: Townsend's warbler.
Greg Toffic


----- Original Message -----
From: "Carol Riddell" <cariddellwa at gmail.com>
To: "Tweeters" <Tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2012 8:39 AM
Subject: [Tweeters] Last (2011) and First (2012)


> Well, I can't begin to match Matt's Snowy for an end-of-2011 sighting.
> Mine was the humble but still wonderful Anna's Hummingbird. First bird
> of 2012 was a Song Sparrow under the yard feeders, scratching in the
> safflower seeds that the finches throw about. But 2011 was a good year
> for life birds, having begun it with a successful chase of the Brown
> Shrike in Northern California and having ended it with another
> successful chase of the Ross's Gull in Okanogan County. I can only
> hope that 2012 will bring such interesting birds for each and every
> one of us.
>
> Happy new year to all,
>
> Carol Riddell
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