That should have made your ebird report easier Gary!
Hans
On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 6:31 PM Dennis Paulson <
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Thanks for sharing that, Gary.
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Dennis Paulson
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Seattle
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On Jan 26, 2022, at 6:24 PM, Gary Bletsch <garybletsch at protonmail.com>
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Dear Tweeters,
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This afternoon I took a walk at Northern State Recreation area near
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Sedro-Woolley, and a quirky thing happened along the way.
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The first bird I saw was a Great Blue Heron. Then I saw a single
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Black-capped Chickadee. I tried to pish out a few more chickadees, but the
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bird appeared to be alone.
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In one of the many excellent sparrow patches along my route, I pished up a
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little trio: one Fox Sparrow, one Spotted Towhee, and one Song Sparrow.
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A few minutes later, one European Starling flew over. Then a Red-tailed
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Hawk glided past.
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I pished my lungs out at some of the sparrow patches along the next leg of
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the route, but the only bird that I saw was a lone Purple Finch.
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At that point, I realized, "Huh, I've seen eight species, one individual
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of each species." I kept trying to find some more Song Sparrows or Spotted
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Towhees, but they were not in evidence.
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A few minutes later, a single Ruby-crowned Kinglet called. That made nine
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species, one individual each.
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I walked along a stretch that usually has all sorts of sparrows and other
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birds, trying to get something else to pop up, but there were no birds.
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Then a single Sharp-shinned Hawk flew over. That made ten species, exactly
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one individual each, after I'd been birding for about 45 minutes, covering
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over two miles, mostly on foot! I'm not sure that's ever happened to me
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before.
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Of course, just then, what species spoils it all? Five more Starlings
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chattering in the treetops!
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Immediately after that, all sorts of other little flocks of birds popped
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up here and there, as if to say, "We were just spoofing you!"
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Yours truly,
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Gary Bletsch
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