Subject: [Tweeters] Spring Migration Bainbridge Island yard birds
Date: Fri May 8 10:17:53 PDT 2020
From: Daniel Lipinski - dano135 at hotmail.com

Quite the week here looking out my home office window. I've added a good group to the FOY list this week and have some larger groups of migrating birds move through. Added my second sighting in 5yrs for a pair of golden crowned sparrows. The yellow rumped warbler push has seemed to wane but I'm having consistent townsends, orange crowned, black-throated gray, and wilsons warblers in the yard. Wilson's and blackthroated grays are local nesters so I expect a few of those to stick around. Hear my FOY western tanagers and Black headed grosbeaks (with a female w. tanager sighting jsut down the road). Junco's and song sparrows are nesting. Pacific slope flycatcher have returned in droves and I heard a distant "quick-three-beers" of an olive sided flycatcher yesterday announcing their arrival. Swainsons thrush is "whitting" in the forest and what appeared to be swainson's thrush was bouncing around the grass. The ravens have been bringing food back to their nest and the red-breasted sapsuckers and pileated woodpeckers have been very busy, so I assume they are nesting nearby. The flicker activity has slowed down and my chimney is no longer getting drummed on..(thank goodness). A flock of greater white fronted geese over head a few weeks ago (late notice...) bringing my yard bird list total to 70. As always in the spring I am cramming to ID birds by song and have likely missed a few species as they moved through.

Dan Lipinski
dano135 at hotmail.com
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