Hi all,

Delia and I birded with a friend from Atlanta over at Stillwater and Cherry Valley Wildlife Management Units today north of Carnation and Duvall respectively. At Stillwater we ran into many nice birders and many nice birds, including good density of Yellowthroats and Rufous Hummingbird plus three Rough-winged Swallows checking out a bridge.

At Cherry Valley we had a Solitary Sandpiper on the standing ponds in the corn fields on the North side and heard a Sora. Cinnamon Teal were present also.

After we got home this evening we were surprised to have a fallout at Butyl Creek, (our backyard recirculating creek) that was good even by past standards for numbers, although not diversity, of warblers. We had Warblers fighting for open bathing pools, with three bathing Orange-crowneds at times, three bathing Wilson's at times and at one point six bathing Yellow-rumped Warblers all crowded into the creek at once.

This in a year I was really worrying that our first Orange-crowned at the creek was over three weeks late, so it's reassuring to see a push.

Delia and I are just back from the New Mexico Bootheel.  Pictures from our trip including Elegant Trogon are at

http://ednewbold.com/we-strike-magic-in-the-desert/


Best wishes, Ed Newbold ednewbold1 at yahoo.com  residential Beacon Hill


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