oddly enough, this morning. for the last hour, while it rained, the chorus
on the plateau was quite beautiful, if not terribly diverse... robins,
house finch, song sparrows, black-headed grosbeak, and a few others in the
greenbelt behind my house, non-stop from about 5ish this morning...

00 caren
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george davis creek, north fork


On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 5:16 AM, jeff gibson <gibsondesign at msn.com> wrote:

> On my bucket list for the next week or two is to haul myself off to some
> decent songbird habitat and listen to a nice dawn chorus.
>
> That's because where I live in North Everett it's too neat and tidy for
> many songbirds. The reason why might be summed up by a man I overheard in
> the garden section of the hardware store the other day as he asked the
> clerk for a product "that will kill everything except my lawn", with no
> sense of irony whatsoever. Way to go Yard Steward!
>
> So it's a bit quiet here at Dawn; I call it the Yawn Chorus. Kind of a
> snoozer.
>
> Now that's maybe a bit too snarky, because we do have lots of nice Robins
> toodling, a few Sparrows etc. In just the last few years, one of our most
> prominent singers, the House Finch has dropped in numbers quite a bit.
> Right around my immediate block or two it's been really quiet - most of
> what I hear seems to be emanating from the funky greenbelt above the
> Everett waterfront a few blocks away. It's pretty quiet overall for
> songbirds, more so all the time it seems to me.
>
> In my mind the best Dawn Chorus I ever heard was in 1970 on Memorial Day
> weekend camped in a woodsy corner of Lake Chelan State Park. All
> the camping hoards were sleeping off their beer, hotdog and marshmellow
> overdoses and it was just the birds and me, with my nice fresh 15 year old
> ears. What an incredible chorus that was - it just seemed to go on and on,
> getting better and better! Amazing! Even better was that I didn't know what
> a lot of the birds were - mysteries! I like that. Lying in my little pup
> tent with a big smile on my face.
>
> Of course lots of things have happened to my ears over the years - they
> don't work quite like they used to. But I can hear plenty still even though
> my wife insists that I'm "deaf as a post" ( 'wash a dish ? - I thought you
> said watch a fish!) ( I am a fish watcher too). I just need to be somewhere
> with a greater variety of birds at dawn. I'm thinking the big ravines out
> toward Mukilteo, or maybe Lords Hill Park out Snohomish way.
>
> Heard a good Dawn chorus lately?
>
> Jeff Gibson
> yawning in
> Everett Wa
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