From thefedderns at gmail.com Sun May 1 00:15:33 2022 From: thefedderns at gmail.com (Hans-Joachim Feddern) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] White-crowned Sparrows. In-Reply-To: <045c5af7-1eb7-c7b9-d305-88679ddee41f@gmail.com> References: <618464337.2390930.1651346106502.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <618464337.2390930.1651346106502@mail.yahoo.com> <045c5af7-1eb7-c7b9-d305-88679ddee41f@gmail.com> Message-ID: I have up to four White-crowned Sparrows in my backyard in Federal Way and up to six Golden-crowned. It is fun having both species in the same binocular view! Hans On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 9:16 PM Gene Beall wrote: > Lots of goldfinches and juncos, a few Red-breasted Nuthatches, Cassin's > finches, kestrels, Western Meadowlarks, Ravens, robins, Rufous > Hummingbirds, grouse, a flicker, etc. No sandhill cranes...and sorry I > don't know if they are still around Othello. > > Gene > > > On 4/30/22 18:00, Ronda Stark wrote: > > But what else did you see? I especially would like to know if the Sandhill > Cranes are still near Othello. I had hoped to go see them about a month ago > and then there were snowstorms in the pass and I did not get a chance to go > there. > > Thanks, > Ronda > > > On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 1:13 PM Gene Beall wrote: > >> We've been seeing at least 5 times as many White-crowned Sparrows this >> spring on the shoulder of the Teanaway Valley (Kittitas County) as we've >> ever seen in the last 12 years of visiting this area. >> >> Gene Beall >> Sammamish, WA >> gene.beall@gmail.com >> >> >> On 4/30/22 13:06, Philip Dickinson wrote: >> >> They were everywhere on Guemes Island this past Tuesday. Many in the >> Stillaguamish Valley, too. >> >> >> Phil Dickinson >> >> On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 12:15 PM mark girling >> wrote: >> >>> >>> I've just returned from a day and a half birding from Snoqualmie Summit >>> to Othello to Wenas Campground and back via Umptanum rd and Ellensburg. >>> Everywhere I went 9 times out of 10 it would be a White-crowned Sparrow. >>> Good they are doing well but spent way to much time sighting tracking a >>> bird to finally see that tell tale white stripe. Am I alone in this >>> opinion. >>> >>> markgirling@yahoo.com >>> Woodridge >>> >>> Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Tweeters mailing list >>> Tweeters@u.washington.edu >>> http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tweeters mailing listTweeters@u.washington.eduhttp://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tweeters mailing list >> Tweeters@u.washington.edu >> http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters >> > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > -- *Hans Feddern* Twin Lakes/Federal Way, WA thefedderns@gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From stevechampton at gmail.com Sun May 1 06:22:36 2022 From: stevechampton at gmail.com (Steve Hampton) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] White-crowned Sparrows. In-Reply-To: References: <618464337.2390930.1651346106502.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <618464337.2390930.1651346106502@mail.yahoo.com> <045c5af7-1eb7-c7b9-d305-88679ddee41f@gmail.com> Message-ID: Port Townsend definitely had an influx to Gambel's White-crowned Sparrows last week, in addition to all the resident pugetensis WCSP, which are now singing on territory everywhere around town. Gambell's are en route from CA and OR to Alaska. They have a more coral pink colored bill and more white and dark striped back, rather than brown and dark. I've got photos of both Gambel's and pugetensis at https://ebird.org/checklist/S107917593. Golden-cr Sparrow numbers are also declining. You'll also see a cute female Slate-colored Junco there. My army of juncos has migrated, replaced by just this bird, who is now also gone. Only a local pair of juncos remain. I've stopped putting out seed now, as it was attracting a disproportionate share of undesirables (e.g. House Sparrows, starlings, and jays and crows). I've just got some suet, which is only bringing in chickadees, Song Sparrow, and Downy Woodpecker. good birding, On Sun, May 1, 2022 at 12:16 AM Hans-Joachim Feddern wrote: > I have up to four White-crowned Sparrows in my backyard in Federal Way and > up to six Golden-crowned. It is fun having both species in the same > binocular view! > > Hans > > On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 9:16 PM Gene Beall wrote: > >> Lots of goldfinches and juncos, a few Red-breasted Nuthatches, Cassin's >> finches, kestrels, Western Meadowlarks, Ravens, robins, Rufous >> Hummingbirds, grouse, a flicker, etc. No sandhill cranes...and sorry I >> don't know if they are still around Othello. >> >> Gene >> >> >> On 4/30/22 18:00, Ronda Stark wrote: >> >> But what else did you see? I especially would like to know if the >> Sandhill Cranes are still near Othello. I had hoped to go see them about a >> month ago and then there were snowstorms in the pass and I did not get a >> chance to go there. >> >> Thanks, >> Ronda >> >> >> On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 1:13 PM Gene Beall wrote: >> >>> We've been seeing at least 5 times as many White-crowned Sparrows this >>> spring on the shoulder of the Teanaway Valley (Kittitas County) as we've >>> ever seen in the last 12 years of visiting this area. >>> >>> Gene Beall >>> Sammamish, WA >>> gene.beall@gmail.com >>> >>> >>> On 4/30/22 13:06, Philip Dickinson wrote: >>> >>> They were everywhere on Guemes Island this past Tuesday. Many in the >>> Stillaguamish Valley, too. >>> >>> >>> Phil Dickinson >>> >>> On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 12:15 PM mark girling >>> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> I've just returned from a day and a half birding from Snoqualmie Summit >>>> to Othello to Wenas Campground and back via Umptanum rd and Ellensburg. >>>> Everywhere I went 9 times out of 10 it would be a White-crowned Sparrow. >>>> Good they are doing well but spent way to much time sighting tracking a >>>> bird to finally see that tell tale white stripe. Am I alone in this >>>> opinion. >>>> >>>> markgirling@yahoo.com >>>> Woodridge >>>> >>>> Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Tweeters mailing list >>>> Tweeters@u.washington.edu >>>> http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Tweeters mailing listTweeters@u.washington.eduhttp://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Tweeters mailing list >>> Tweeters@u.washington.edu >>> http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tweeters mailing list >> Tweeters@u.washington.edu >> http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters >> > > > -- > *Hans Feddern* > Twin Lakes/Federal Way, WA > thefedderns@gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > -- ?Steve Hampton? 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Green Road Pond was the best swallow spot, with a couple of early Bank Swallows, plus Barn, Cliff, Rough-winged, Tree, and Violet-green. A Sora called the whole time I was there. A few Purple Martins circled around the? Anacortes Ferry Terminal, making seven species of swallows for the day. I also saw a Hermit Thrush there. Ospreys were working on their nest. I am guessing that the male was the one carrying the sticks, and the female was the one encouraging (or haranguing?) him. At one point, he attempted to fly with an enormous stick in his talons. It must have been three yards long. Halfway to the nest, he dropped it. It might have been just a few pounds too heavy for him to manage. At Green Point, seabird numbers were fairly low, but it was a good variety. A single Marbled Murrelet in brown plumage swam close to the point. Pelagic Cormorants were feeding closer to shore than normal, giving good looks at their breeding finery. A few Brandt's Cormorants joined them, along with lots of Rhinoceros Auklets. In the forest, I heard several Townsend's Warblers singing, but I could not get them in view. This was where I saw the only junco of the day, oddly enough. At the Game Range on Fir Island, a female YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD showed up by the spot that I call the Dike Junction. This is the spot where a new dike heads off to the west, over a stout bridge, and the old dike continues off to the south. As usual with this species, the Yellow-headed Blackbird perched on various snags in the wetland. She was not with any other blackbirds. I ended up with a day list of about 105 species, which I think is a new April big-day record for Skagit--despite dipping on the Sanderlings and White Pelicans at March Point. Also, as is invariably the case on a big day, there were some silly misses, including Turkey Vulture, Golden-crowned Sparrow, kinglets, and most of the woodpeckers.? 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Had nice visits with three Marbled Murrelet couples + one lonely single, an absolutely gorgeous pair of mature Rhinos, with full on streamers, and three first years, and I was gratified to see many Surf Scoters moving out on their way north. Also, a lovely group of about 30 Brant right off West Point. Spring is here! Fun transitional time. Brad Liljequist Phinney Ridge, Seattle, WA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From steamboatwilleys at yahoo.com Sun May 1 12:27:58 2022 From: steamboatwilleys at yahoo.com (Stan and Irene Willey) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Whimbrel at Lopez References: <095DA695-75FD-4385-83AE-FE8D69E3F382.ref@yahoo.com> Message-ID: <095DA695-75FD-4385-83AE-FE8D69E3F382@yahoo.com> There was a sparse showing at Spenser Spit on Lopez Island this morning; a few locals including four northern pintails which may be migrant. The only notable was a whimbrel seen on the north verge of the lagoon until chased off by walkers with a dog. Stan from Poulsbo en route to Alaska Sent from my iPhone From marvbreece at q.com Sun May 1 16:42:32 2022 From: marvbreece at q.com (Marv Breece) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Kent Valley birds today 5.1.22 Message-ID: <1513695052.102485593.1651448552183.JavaMail.zimbra@q.com> M Street in Auburn: Greater Yellowlegs - 2 Solitary Sandpiper - 1 (day 5) Least Sandpipers - 30 Western Meadowlark - 1 204th and Frager Rd in Kent: American Bittern - heard Wilson's Snipe - 1 Long-billed Dowitcher - 1 Greater Yellowlegs - 4 Solitary Sandpiper - now 3 Least Sandpiper - 12 Marv Breece Tukwila, WA marvbreece@q.com Pbase Images : https://www.pbase.com/marvbreece Flickr Videos : https://www.flickr.com/photos/138163614@N02/ Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHbkNzr4TaZ6ZBWfoJNvavw/featured -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I tried to find one while in Mexico City in January and didn't have any luck. I'm wondering if there's a canonical guide that people like to use. > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From stevechampton at gmail.com Mon May 2 08:50:18 2022 From: stevechampton at gmail.com (Steve Hampton) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] bird book for Mexico In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Howell and Webb is the standard. It's fantastic, but also rather heavy for a field guide. https://www.amazon.com/Guide-Mexico-Northern-Central-America/dp/0198540124 On Mon, May 2, 2022 at 8:41 AM Sam Sudar wrote: > Does anyone have any recommendations for good bird books in Mexico? I > tried to find one while in Mexico City in January and didn't have any luck. > I'm wondering if there's a canonical guide that people like to use. > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > -- ?Steve Hampton? Port Townsend, WA (qat?y) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From birdbooker at zipcon.net Mon May 2 11:14:12 2022 From: birdbooker at zipcon.net (Ian Paulsen) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] bird book for Mexico In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <458bebe7-e48a-8239-e2ff-bd78246e2264@zipcon.net> HI Sam: Princeton University Press is working on two new Mexican birds guides. One is a photographic guide by Michael Ritter and the other is a compact updated version of the Howell guide. No publication date has been set for either book. sincerely Ian Paulsen Bainbridge Island, WA, USA Visit my BIRDBOOKER REPORT blog here: https://birdbookerreport.blogspot.com/ From jason.ferleman at gmail.com Mon May 2 12:41:33 2022 From: jason.ferleman at gmail.com (Jason Ferleman) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Interesting Goose Message-ID: We spotted this goose with a mate and babies on Commodore near Fisherman's Terminal. My dad has spotted this same goose in/around Magnolia for the last 3 years. https://www.flickr.com/gp/194909426@N07/2GNcFo -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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AKopitov Seattle AMK17 From jdanzenbaker at gmail.com Mon May 2 14:31:25 2022 From: jdanzenbaker at gmail.com (Jim Danzenbaker) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] More yard bids cont In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: A fairly decent passage of migrants today over my Battle Ground, Clark County yard today included the following: Yellow-rumped Warbler: 98 Wilson's Warbler: 3 Black-throated Gray Warbler: 1 unidentified warblers which were probably Yellow-rumped: 22 Dusky Flycatcher (on the edge of a local pond 100 yards from the house): 1 Black-headed Grosbeak: 3 Evening Grosbeak: one unseen flock American Pipit: 1 Hermit Thrush: 1 rain: of course Keep your eyes and ears skyward. Jim On Mon, May 2, 2022 at 2:25 PM AMK17 wrote: > A flock of swallows flew overhead and a hermit thrush also in the > yard..nice mixed flock. Anyone else seeing mixed flocks today? > > AKopitov > Seattle > AMK17 > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > -- Jim Danzenbaker Battle Ground, WA 360-702-9395 jdanzenbaker@gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dgrainger at birdsbydave.com Mon May 2 15:14:51 2022 From: dgrainger at birdsbydave.com (dgrainger@birdsbydave.com) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Interesting Goose In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <9edf8ff87a00265b1949a6f64a8765b4@birdsbydave.com> Given the markings, I wonder whether one is a hybrid or partially leucistic. Dave Grainger On 2022-05-02 12:41, Jason Ferleman wrote: > We spotted this goose with a mate and babies on Commodore near > Fisherman's Terminal. My dad has spotted this same goose in/around > Magnolia for the last 3 years. > > https://www.flickr.com/gp/194909426@N07/2GNcFo > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters From drose1103 at gmail.com Mon May 2 16:30:17 2022 From: drose1103 at gmail.com (don rose) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Photography tips Message-ID: Vancouver Audubon Society is hosting its monthly program on Zoom on Tuesday, May 3 at 6:30 pm. The first 30 minutes is a social gathering and discussion of local bird sightings. At 7:00 pm, our program will feature Ken Pitts discussing tips on nature and bird photography. If you are interested, send an email to meetings@vancouveraudubon.org and request the link to this Zoom event. Don Rose Program Chair, Vancouver Audubon meetings@vancouveraudubon.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Dave Parent dpdvmatwhidbeydotcom Langley, WA Sent from my iPad From thefedderns at gmail.com Mon May 2 23:50:05 2022 From: thefedderns at gmail.com (Hans-Joachim Feddern) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Interesting Goose In-Reply-To: <9edf8ff87a00265b1949a6f64a8765b4@birdsbydave.com> References: <9edf8ff87a00265b1949a6f64a8765b4@birdsbydave.com> Message-ID: The head markings make it look somewhat of an Egyptian - and Canada Goose hybrid. Hans On Mon, May 2, 2022 at 3:15 PM wrote: > Given the markings, I wonder whether one is a hybrid or partially > leucistic. Dave Grainger > > On 2022-05-02 12:41, Jason Ferleman wrote: > > We spotted this goose with a mate and babies on Commodore near > > Fisherman's Terminal. 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I'm not > familiar enough to confirm. > > Here's a link to a video with the stills and the audio. > > https://vimeo.com/705934655 > > Doug Plummer > > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From danmcdt at gmail.com Tue May 3 16:40:26 2022 From: danmcdt at gmail.com (Dan McDougall-Treacy) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Possible Hammond's Flycatcher in N Seattle In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Vocalizations do sound like Hammonds. And the shape of the eye ring contributes to the ID. Dan McDougall-Treacy On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 4:32 PM Steve Loitz wrote: > Call sounds like that of a HAFL and unlike other Empidonax flycatchers one > would expect to see or hear in the area. (I do not hear a song.) It > possibly is a migrant, working its way to higher ground for the summer. (We > often see and hear HAFLs in montane habitat in the WA Cascades.) > > -- > Steve Loitz > Ellensburg, WA > steveloitz@gmail.com > > On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 4:04 PM Doug Plummer <2doug@dougplummer.com> wrote: > >> I followed a weird call at my house (Bryant neighborhood) to a calling >> flycatcher. I got photos and audio. Merlin called it a Hammonds. I'm not >> familiar enough to confirm. >> >> Here's a link to a video with the stills and the audio. >> >> https://vimeo.com/705934655 >> >> Doug Plummer >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tweeters mailing list >> Tweeters@u.washington.edu >> http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From leschwitters at me.com Tue May 3 17:51:46 2022 From: leschwitters at me.com (Larry Schwitters) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Vaux's Happening Message-ID: <5A58CF04-0899-473E-8C32-0CDCFA5974D5@me.com> Looks like the same 6000 Vaux?s Swifts that spent last night in the Monroe Wagner Roost had a two night reservation. They keep beating our observers to the bricks. 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(We > often see and hear HAFLs in montane habitat in the WA Cascades.) > > -- > Steve Loitz > Ellensburg, WA > steveloitz@gmail.com > > On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 4:04 PM Doug Plummer <2doug@dougplummer.com> wrote: > >> I followed a weird call at my house (Bryant neighborhood) to a calling >> flycatcher. I got photos and audio. Merlin called it a Hammonds. I'm not >> familiar enough to confirm. >> >> Here's a link to a video with the stills and the audio. >> >> https://vimeo.com/705934655 >> >> Doug Plummer >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tweeters mailing list >> Tweeters@u.washington.edu >> http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Here is my morning list from KahTai Lagoon (with some pics): https://ebird.org/checklist/S108921168 And then a short extra list because there were so many birds behind my yard: https://ebird.org/checklist/S108931943 Add to that a pair of Townsend's Solitaires and a continued Marbled Godwit among the Whimbrels on Marrowstone Island yesterday (and a Nashville Warbler found yesterday and a Common Tern today by others), and migration flood gates appear to be fully open! good birding, -- Steve Hampton Port Townsend, WA (qat?y) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From krtrease at gmail.com Wed May 4 15:47:03 2022 From: krtrease at gmail.com (Kenneth Trease) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Yellow-headed Blackbirds on Home Acres Rd Message-ID: I found the 8 Yellow-headed Blackbirds reported earlier today on Home Acres Road. This area is located about 2 miles northwest of the town of Snohomish. 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As the whereabouts of this Jay has been a question by some fellow birders of late, happy to confirm that our friend is still hanging around amidst Spring migration.... ~Miranda Port Townsend, WA mlmolympics@hotmail.com Sent from Outlook ________________________________ From: Tweeters on behalf of tweeters-request@mailman11.u.washington.edu Sent: Wednesday, May 4, 2022 12:08 PM To: tweeters@u.washington.edu Subject: Tweeters Digest, Vol 213, Issue 4 Send Tweeters mailing list submissions to tweeters@u.washington.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to tweeters-request@mailman11.u.washington.edu You can reach the person managing the list at tweeters-owner@mailman11.u.washington.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Tweeters digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Lewis?s Woodpecker over Montlake Fill (Louis) 2. Possible Hammond's Flycatcher in N Seattle (Doug Plummer) 3. Re: Possible Hammond's Flycatcher in N Seattle (Steve Loitz) 4. Re: Possible Hammond's Flycatcher in N Seattle (Dan McDougall-Treacy) 5. Vaux's Happening (Larry Schwitters) 6. Re: Possible Hammond's Flycatcher in N Seattle (Michael Hobbs) 7. Re: Possible Hammond's Flycatcher in N Seattle (AMK17) 8. Kent Valley birding (Marv Breece) 9. April Birding (B B) 10. Yellow-headed blackbirds, Snohomish County (peggy_busby) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 3 May 2022 14:52:52 -0700 From: Louis To: "Tweeters (E-mail)" Subject: [Tweeters] Lewis?s Woodpecker over Montlake Fill Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi Tweeters, Sam Fason and I had a Lewis?s Woodpecker fly low over Montlake Fill headed North-East at 2:45pm. 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I'm not > familiar enough to confirm. > > Here's a link to a video with the stills and the audio. > > https://vimeo.com/705934655 > > Doug Plummer > > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Tue, 3 May 2022 16:40:26 -0700 From: Dan McDougall-Treacy To: Steve Loitz Cc: Tweeters , Doug Plummer <2doug@dougplummer.com> Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Possible Hammond's Flycatcher in N Seattle Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Vocalizations do sound like Hammonds. And the shape of the eye ring contributes to the ID. Dan McDougall-Treacy On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 4:32 PM Steve Loitz wrote: > Call sounds like that of a HAFL and unlike other Empidonax flycatchers one > would expect to see or hear in the area. (I do not hear a song.) It > possibly is a migrant, working its way to higher ground for the summer. (We > often see and hear HAFLs in montane habitat in the WA Cascades.) > > -- > Steve Loitz > Ellensburg, WA > steveloitz@gmail.com > > On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 4:04 PM Doug Plummer <2doug@dougplummer.com> wrote: > >> I followed a weird call at my house (Bryant neighborhood) to a calling >> flycatcher. I got photos and audio. Merlin called it a Hammonds. I'm not >> familiar enough to confirm. >> >> Here's a link to a video with the stills and the audio. >> >> https://vimeo.com/705934655 >> >> Doug Plummer >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tweeters mailing list >> Tweeters@u.washington.edu >> http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Tue, 3 May 2022 17:51:46 -0700 From: Larry Schwitters To: Tweeters Subject: [Tweeters] Vaux's Happening Message-ID: <5A58CF04-0899-473E-8C32-0CDCFA5974D5@me.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Looks like the same 6000 Vaux?s Swifts that spent last night in the Monroe Wagner Roost had a two night reservation. They keep beating our observers to the bricks. 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I have some photos, would anyone be willing to confirm ID for me if I email them to you? The good news is it flew away just as I was preparing to take it to a friend?s house to check on it regularly while I?m at work so we could decide if it needed a trip to PAWS. Hoping it makes it, what a beautiful bird! And a first for my yard list but definitely not how I want to add birds to the list :( Emily Birchman Kenmore WA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From zinke.pilchuck at gmail.com Thu May 5 11:32:35 2022 From: zinke.pilchuck at gmail.com (Brian Zinke) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Thousands of swifts in the Monroe chimney (live cam) Message-ID: Hi Tweets, Currently there are several thousand Vaux's Swifts in the chimney in Monroe. Use the link below to view the live cam looking into the chimney: https://vaux-swift-inside1.click2stream.com/ Happy migration season! 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Initially it had been in the trees at the parking lot by the visitors center. I did not find it there, but was able to relocate in the trees at the entrance of the park hawking for insects. Nice looking bird with the rosy front! Otherwise, birding was somewhat slow at Ginkgo yesterday. In addition to the resident Say's Phoebe, there were a lot of Yellow-rumped Warblers ,which were everywhere yesterday, a few White-crowned Sparrows, a couple of Orange-crowned Warblers, a bright male Yellow Warbler feeding high in a cottonwood and two female Goldfinches. Also seen was an adult Bald Eagle being chased up the Columbia River by a Common Raven to the background music of a pair of Common Loons yodeling on the river. It was an interesting size comparison - especially looking down on them! The finale was a noisy Navy EA-18G Growler jet coming down the river and pulling up before the I-90 bridge. Definitely a bird of a different color! 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Highlights included FOY WILSON'S WARBLER, BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK, PURPLE MARTIN, BAND-TAILED PIGEON, and CALIFORNIA QUAIL calling from the McAllister Hill west and north of the McAllister Creek Observation Platform. We also had great looks of EURASIAN GREEN-WINGED TEAL, PACIFIC-SLOPE FLYCATCHER, and a pair of NORTHERN ROUGH-WINGED SWALLOWS carrying nest material into cavity in a Maple Tree at the Twin Barns Cut-off. Starting out at 8am at the Visitor Center Pond Overlook, we had terrific looks at RING-NECKED DUCK, WOOD DUCK, HOODED MERGANSER, and COMMON MERGANSER. I suspect all but the Ring-necked Duck are nesting around the pond in a nearby tree cavity. There are AMERICAN ROBIN and BARN SWALLOW nesting at the Visitor Center. The last three weeks we have had a large dark duck with a white supercilium that looks like a domestic x Mallard hybrid in the pond, some features appear similar to Gargany which I don't think it is, and photos were posted in my eBird report last week 4/27. The flood fields on either side of the old McAllister Creek access road were good for NORTHERN SHOVELER, NORTHERN PINTAIL, AMERICAN WIGEON, AMERICAN GREEN WINGED TEAL and BUFFLEHEAD. There is plenty of mud with waters edge so we had good looks of LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER, LEAST SANDPIPER, and WESTERN SANDPIPER. Just south of the Twin Barns the EURASIAN GREEN-WINGED TEAL continues in the flooded field (we only saw the Eurasian, there have been sightings of a Eurasian x American hybrid as well). In the afternoon Doug Martin spotted an American Bittern in the flooded field south of the access road. The morning chorus was spectacular with COMMON YELLOWTHROAT, SONG SPARROW, YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER, YELLOW WARBLER, ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER, WILSON'S WARBLER, distant RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD, VIRGINIA RAIL, and overhead TREE SWALLOW, BARN SWALLOW and PURPLE FINCH. The west side of the Twin Barns Loop Trail was good for all the warbler species. We also had sightings of BLACK-CAPPED CHICKADEE, CHESTNUT-BACKED CHICKADEE, DOWNY WOODPECKER, RED-BREASTED SAPSUCKER, and RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD. There are two active BALD EAGLE nests, one over the Twin Barns and the other in a large Cottonwood Tree east side of the restored surge plain on the west bank of the Nisqually River. Out on the new dike or Nisqually Estuary Trails we had great looks of GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE, CANADA GOOSE with goslings, CINNAMON TEAL and additional water fowl. I was surprised there were not more shorebirds in the flooded fields adjacent to the marsh, we also have not heard Sora. Perhaps with the nice weather they all flew over the Refuge. STELLER'S JAYS were seen in the riparian stand on the south side of the marsh. There were also reports of BLUE-WINGED TEAL, PEREGRINE FALCON, AMERICAN KESTREL, and OSPREY. The Nisqually Estuary Boardwalk Trail was great for SHORT-BILLED GULL, RING-BILLED GULL, WESTERN/GLAUCOUS-WINGED GULL, and many CASPIAN TERNS (30-40 birds). We have some banded terns and have observed courtship and breeding. We also had great looks of COMMON MERGANSER, RED-BREASTED MERGANSER, BUFFLEHEAD, GREEN-WINGED TEAL and AMERICAN WIGEON. Although the overall number of waterfowl has decreased as expected, we did not see Cackling Geese for the day. The McAllister Creek Observation Platform has dozens of CLIFF SWALLOW nesting in the rafters of the roof. Along McAllister Creek we observed SPOTTED SANDPIPER and flocks of BAND-TAILED PIGEON. CALIFORNIA QUAIL and BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK were clearly heard from the McAllister Hill west of the creek. On the mud flats we had nice looks of 6-8 WHIMBREL and small groups of LEAST SANDPIPER, WESTERN SANDPIPER and DUNLIN. Interestingly, we only observed 1 GREATER YELLOWLEGS, whereas last week we saw 30-40, so I suspect a recent migrational push of shorebirds north. From the Puget Sound Viewing Platform we must have counted 50+ BALD EAGLE out on the Nisqually Reach, there's got to be a lot of food for them, probably both from the water and the air. We also added PURPLE MARTIN, COMMON LOON, and both DOUBLE-CRESTED and BRANDT'S CORMORANT to our list. The Twin Barns Overlook was good for EURASIAN WIGEON, YELLOW WARBLER, AMERICAN GOLDFINCH and PINE SISKIN. We were unsuccessful in trying to relocate the White-throated Sparrow seen over the weekend mixed in with the flocks of GOLDEN-CROWNED SPARROW that remain around the Twin Barns. Jim Neitzel located a nest hole in a Maple Tree at the Twin Barns cut-off where a pair of NORTHERN ROUGH-WINGED SWALLOW are collecting nesting material and visiting the cavity. Usually Rough-wings nest in old Kingfisher cavities in the banks of the McAllister Creek, this is the first time I've observed them nesting in a tree in the riparian area. The east side of the Twin Barns Loop Trail was good for BROWN CREEPER and numerous YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER. We had great looks of PACIFIC-SLOPE FLYCATCHER and also heard this species calling "psweet". The Orchard was quiet in the afternoon. A pair of WOOD DUCK are in the pond behind the Educational Center. A WARBLING VIREO was calling from above the entrance to the access road across from the Ed Center. We finished up our day on the AMERICAN BITTERN in the flooded field south of the old McAllister Creek access road, a very nice end to a busy spring day. We observed 87 species for the day, and have seen 134 species for the year. Mammals seen included Muskrat, Columbian Black-tailed Deer, Coyote, Eastern Gray Squirrel, Harbor Seal and Eastern Cotton-tailed Rabbit. We did not refind the Orca seen last week, it's been 3-4 weeks since we have seen Mink, and we last saw Long-tailed Weasel about two months ago. Perhaps with all the fledglings on the way, we will see more of these predators in the near future. Until next week, happy birding! Shep -- Shep Thorp Browns Point 253-370-3742 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jimbetz at jimbetz.com Thu May 5 12:48:29 2022 From: jimbetz at jimbetz.com (jimbetz@jimbetz.com) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] White-Crowned Sparrows ... and more In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20220505124829.Horde.H_ZkUICq0YoUsClY1XJ_pxV@webmail.jimbetz.com> Hi all, About a week (10 days?) ago I confirmed Gary's sighting of more than typical numbers of White-Crowned Sparrows. They are still showing up here at our backyard seed feeder. They feed primarily on the seeds kicked out onto the aggregate below the feeder - and in the recently re-seeded lawn. We are seeing them "every time we look in the back yard". Probably as many as 10 to 15 at any one time. I suspect this 'flock' is actually the same population - but no way to know for sure. Whenever I've gone out to that yard they fly away - as far as the nearest bush/tree and complain about having to be away from their choice of feeding. And then promptly return to the yard as soon as I go into the house ... no more than 3 to 5 minutes afterward. There is a similar number of finches (Siskins, House/Purple, and Goldfinches), a few towhees, and even a few Black-capped Chickadees. We will see the -occasional- Flicker, Stellars, a Bald Eagle that likes to sit a spell on the tree top below us, the ever present Anna's, a few crows and/or ravens, and every 10 days or so a Red-Tailed Hawk. We were seeing a few vultures about a month ago - but none since. Recently we've been seeing Violet-Green Swallows that zoom around catching insects right in front of our windows/deck/house - they will land, briefly, on the roof and look in under the eaves but so far no sign of a nest build in progress (this year). - That's a 'typical' day here in Burlington ... Jim From birdmarymoor at gmail.com Thu May 5 18:06:25 2022 From: birdmarymoor at gmail.com (birdmarymoor@gmail.com) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Marymoor Park (Redmond, King Co.) 2022-05-05 Message-ID: <36D43E33EE914641A0BB8F33F44950A0@DESKTOPER2GUVC> Tweets ? It was a miserable Mayvember morning today, with temps dropping from 50 to 47 degrees while the mizzle turned to drizzle and then steady rain. The first-week-of-May survey is usually the best survey of the entire year (at least, the one with the highest species count). And we did have a lot species by the end, but sometimes we weren?t having much fun. There were good birds and some surprises. Highlights: a.. SNOW GEESE ? Distant flock of ~150 flying north. Our latest spring sighting for Snow Geese ever, though we did have a large flock 2018-05-03 b.. Cinnamon Teal ? Male seen from the Lake Platform, and (probably the same) one seen at the Rowing Club c.. Green-winged Teal ? Getting late ? maybe 5 at the mitigation ponds seen from the Rowing Club d.. Ring-necked Duck ? Getting late ? pair seen from the Lake Platform e.. Eurasian Collared-Dove ? One flew north from the East Meadow f.. Mourning Dove ? Matt heard one singing pre-dawn. First of Year (FOY) g.. LEAST SANDPIPER ? Matt heard a few small flocks fly up the slough predawn (FOY) h.. Caspian Tern ? Two over lake (FOY) i.. Hammond?s Flycatcher ? One calling and posing, east edge of Dog Meadow (FOY) j.. Swainson?s Thrush ? One calling unseen from the east edge of Dog Meadow. Matt heard more ?whit? calls predawn (FOY) k.. American Pipit ? 4-5 in the Dog Meadow l.. Lincoln?s Sparrow ? One singing! predawn near the Viewing Mound m.. Bullock?s Oriole ? Male singing, calling, near weir n.. Yellow Warbler ? Several heard singing, one seen (FOY) o.. Yellow-rumped Warbler ? Many, many, many p.. Townsend?s Warbler ? Surprised to see one in the cottonwoods near the east end of the boardwalk q.. Western Tanager ? Two silent males at the south end of the Dog Meadow (FOY) r.. Black-headed Grosbeak ? Female with the tanagers, singing male from the boardwalk (FOY) Kazuto Shibata photographed a LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE at the park on Tuesday, 5/3. Misses today included Pied-billed Grebe, Rock Pigeon, Band-tailed Pigeon, Green Heron, Belted Kingfisher, and Warbling Vireo. A few winter birds were missed for the first time this spring, and have probably moved on: Cackling Goose, Wilson?s Snipe, Fox Sparrow, and Western Meadowlark (actually not seen last week either). 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There are also suet feeders. A few minutes ago a Fisher dashed across the deck, about 15 feet from the living room floor to ceiling windows. I had seen one last fall in Ledbetter State Park, which I had expected to be a once in a life time sighting. As expected for the date, the bay and open beach now has very large numbers of migrant shorebirds. Even at the bight n the bay at my house, the rising or falling tide has hundreds of Western Sandpipers, many Dunlin and Semipalmated Plovers, and dozens of Short-billed Dowitchers, and Black-bellied Plovers. Jeff Gilligan on Willapa Bay From bradliljequist at msn.com Fri May 6 12:33:25 2022 From: bradliljequist at msn.com (BRAD Liljequist) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Cougar Mt. birding - Pac slope flycatchers Message-ID: I've been meaning to post for some time that Cougar Mt is a superb place for birding, esp in spring - warblers, flycatchers, etc. I was the only person on the main trail running up from Newport Way yesterday. It was not the most birdy day, but it was also wet - but had a handful of Pacific Slope Flycatchers close to the top (all by sound only). You can drive to the top and walk around the upper trails. My favorite for birds though is the trail that runs from the small parking area on SR900, just south of Talus Drive. Also the Newport Way trailhead is good. I highly recommend taking a map - there is a maze of trails up there and it's actually quite easy to get lost. It's also a great winter training hike bottom to top, around 1200' vertical. 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Next I slowly walked out to the feeder and got to within 18 inches of the activity and had close views of one male Anna's vigorously impaling another around the head and throat. The attacker was so consumed by its efforts that it only spooked when I got within a foot of the scene. This all happened in about fifteen minutes. Finally the prone bird tumbled off the feeder onto the ground. I later collected it and will take it to the Burke Museum. Has anyone else seen Anna's aggressive behavior rise to this deadly level? Steve Giles Camano Island -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From baro at pdx.edu Fri May 6 18:44:38 2022 From: baro at pdx.edu (Robert O'Brien) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Male Anna's mortality interaction In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I found it amazing. Almost unbelievable. BUT..............see here. Appears also to be a molting (immature?) Anna's killing an adult. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2MSlJEZrj0 Bob OBrien Portland On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 5:48 PM Steve Giles wrote: > Hello all, > > This morning I witnessed a male Anna's hummingbird impaling another male > Anna's with its beak until it died. > > At about 9 AM I looked out at our feeders and on one of them I saw what > looked like an Anna's perched on top of something dark and horizontal in > the channel of the feeder. The perched bird seemed to be stabbing whatever > it was on with its bill. I looked through my bins and saw that it was > another hummingbird laying on the feeder being repeatedly stabbed by the > bird on top of it. Next I slowly walked out to the feeder and got to within > 18 inches of the activity and had close views of one male Anna's > vigorously impaling another around the head and throat. The attacker was so > consumed by its efforts that it only spooked when I got within a foot of > the scene. This all happened in about fifteen minutes. Finally the prone > bird tumbled off the feeder onto the ground. I later collected it and will > take it to the Burke Museum. > > Has anyone else seen Anna's aggressive behavior rise to this deadly level? > > Steve Giles > > Camano Island > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From baro at pdx.edu Fri May 6 18:46:48 2022 From: baro at pdx.edu (Robert O'Brien) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Male Anna's mortality interaction In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On this ugly subject, years ago I photographed an adult Anna's attempting to rape a young, out of the nest, fledgling that had a still short beak and could not fly very well.. Bob OBrien On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 6:44 PM Robert O'Brien wrote: > I found it amazing. Almost unbelievable. BUT..............see here. > Appears also to be a molting (immature?) Anna's killing an adult. > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2MSlJEZrj0 > Bob OBrien Portland > > On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 5:48 PM Steve Giles > wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> This morning I witnessed a male Anna's hummingbird impaling another male >> Anna's with its beak until it died. >> >> At about 9 AM I looked out at our feeders and on one of them I saw what >> looked like an Anna's perched on top of something dark and horizontal in >> the channel of the feeder. The perched bird seemed to be stabbing whatever >> it was on with its bill. I looked through my bins and saw that it was >> another hummingbird laying on the feeder being repeatedly stabbed by the >> bird on top of it. Next I slowly walked out to the feeder and got to within >> 18 inches of the activity and had close views of one male Anna's >> vigorously impaling another around the head and throat. The attacker was so >> consumed by its efforts that it only spooked when I got within a foot of >> the scene. This all happened in about fifteen minutes. Finally the prone >> bird tumbled off the feeder onto the ground. I later collected it and will >> take it to the Burke Museum. >> >> Has anyone else seen Anna's aggressive behavior rise to this deadly level? >> >> Steve Giles >> >> Camano Island >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tweeters mailing list >> Tweeters@u.washington.edu >> http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From baro at pdx.edu Fri May 6 18:52:40 2022 From: baro at pdx.edu (Robert O'Brien) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Male Anna's mortality interaction In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: And on a happier note, years ago a female Anna's at my feeder was buzzed by a maler, causing the female to exit rapidly, only to fly into and be impaled, like a dart, on a nearby, open, screen door. It struggled to extract itself of course, and when It seemed 'stuck' I headed out to assist, but it succeeded in getting free and flew off as I arrived.. No hummers were injured in this case. Bob OBrioen On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 6:46 PM Robert O'Brien wrote: > On this ugly subject, years ago I photographed an adult Anna's attempting > to rape a young, out of the nest, fledgling that had a still short beak and > could not fly very well.. > Bob OBrien > > > On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 6:44 PM Robert O'Brien wrote: > >> I found it amazing. Almost unbelievable. BUT..............see here. >> Appears also to be a molting (immature?) Anna's killing an adult. >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2MSlJEZrj0 >> Bob OBrien Portland >> >> On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 5:48 PM Steve Giles >> wrote: >> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> This morning I witnessed a male Anna's hummingbird impaling another male >>> Anna's with its beak until it died. >>> >>> At about 9 AM I looked out at our feeders and on one of them I saw what >>> looked like an Anna's perched on top of something dark and horizontal in >>> the channel of the feeder. The perched bird seemed to be stabbing whatever >>> it was on with its bill. I looked through my bins and saw that it was >>> another hummingbird laying on the feeder being repeatedly stabbed by the >>> bird on top of it. Next I slowly walked out to the feeder and got to within >>> 18 inches of the activity and had close views of one male Anna's >>> vigorously impaling another around the head and throat. The attacker was so >>> consumed by its efforts that it only spooked when I got within a foot of >>> the scene. This all happened in about fifteen minutes. Finally the prone >>> bird tumbled off the feeder onto the ground. I later collected it and will >>> take it to the Burke Museum. >>> >>> Has anyone else seen Anna's aggressive behavior rise to this deadly >>> level? >>> >>> Steve Giles >>> >>> Camano Island >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Tweeters mailing list >>> Tweeters@u.washington.edu >>> http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters >>> >> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From garybletsch at protonmail.com Sat May 7 10:39:30 2022 From: garybletsch at protonmail.com (Gary Bletsch) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Lewis and Vesper now Game Range Message-ID: See ebird. 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Around these coordinates 47.679231 -122.250433 7 May, 2022, Alan Grenon Seattle panmail AT mailfence.com -- Sent with https://mailfence.com Secure and private email -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From amk17 at earthlink.net Sat May 7 19:21:54 2022 From: amk17 at earthlink.net (AMK17) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] More migration in Phinney Message-ID: Spotted an empid?at my little pond but it disappeared by the time I got my binos. While outside looking for it A robust flock of yellow rumpled warblers flew oveR?and circled back landing in the yard. ?And more kept dropping down from behind me. ?I counted over 60 flyover but lost track as they started dropping down. ?There must have been 75 to 100+ ?Must admit it was quite an rush to be surrounded by so many in such a small yard! ?Both Audubon's and Myrtles in this group. ?The plumages?are spectacular now With so many variations. Left Merlin running and it id'd?a white throated sparrow too but I did not see or hear it. ?But it was very birdie. ? On another note young juncos and bewicks?wrens fed in the yard today as well. ?Seems so early. ? Never did find the empid... ? Happy migration! ? AKopitov Phinney?Ridge, Seattle ? 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URL: From mattxyz at earthlink.net Sun May 8 07:14:14 2022 From: mattxyz at earthlink.net (Matt Bartels) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Gray flycatcher still present at Magnuson Park Message-ID: The gray flycatcher is still present at Magnuson Park in Seattle this sunday morning ? ? after looking for over an hour I returned to my car and the gray flycatcher was near the road at the coordinates below. ? A short muddy trail into trees allowed good views Matt Bartels Seattle wa https://goo.gl/maps/qGB1rm2FwSSxExvE9 Sent from my iPhone -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ksnyder75 at gmail.com Sun May 8 09:12:05 2022 From: ksnyder75 at gmail.com (Kathleen Snyder) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] eBird Basics Class - Wednesday May 11 at 7 pm Zoom Message-ID: Bill Tweit, birder extraordinaire, will be giving a *free* presentation on using eBird for the beginner and intermediate birder. 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It took hours to relocate the LEWIS'S WOODPECKER that had been reported there on Friday. A handful of other birders and I observed it at the Dike Junction. That is what I call a very good birding spot that deserves a name. It is reached by walking south from the Headquarters area on a dike, past the so-called "viewing blind." That blind deserves a name, too, but in my estimation, "viewing blind" is a misnomer. Skull-cracking Blind would be better, since that is about all it is good for. Anyway, the dike junction is just south of that forehead-destruction unit, where a big new dike heads west from the old dike, making a junction of two dikes. The Lewis's Woodpecker soon flew at least 500 meters northeast, and spent several hours flycatching from the area of the boat launch. I was able to see it there again later on. At one point the bird flew across the Skagit River, but soon came back to forage from perches about 80 meters east of the bathrooms.? A good observation point was the very muddy turnout on the south side of the boat launch itself. A single BLUE-WINGED TEAL drake proved fairly difficult to observe. It showed briefly from the pond west of the Skull-cracking Blind, but spent more time foraging with a small flock of Green-winged Teal in a flooded corn-stubble field just west of there. Early in the morning, Mike Nelson had found a VESPER SPARROW in the brush near the toilet at the boat-launch parking area. When I pulled up in my car there at 0900, an odd-looking sparrow hopped onto the roof of that bathroom, but disappeared before I could study it with binoculars. I spent quite a while searching that area, to no avail. However, after I gave up and started walking on the dike, the Vesper Sparrow turned up, foraging with about a dozen Golden-crowned Sparrows on a gravel roadway. This was right where the entrance road bends right and enters the Headquarters parking area. Unfortunately, cars, dog-walkers, and strollers soon flushed this flock, and I never had an unequivocal view of the Vesper again for the rest of my time there. This was a great find by Mike. The only previous record of a Vesper Sparrow at the Game Range, at least as shown on eBird, was a bird found there in the fall by Steve Mlodinow a few years ago. A lone PURPLE MARTIN was a good find by Bob Kuntz, who had told me about it. I was able to see this bird later at the Dike Junction, only because it was chasing after a Peregrine Falcon that blasted by! I tried birding Fir Island Farm Reserve and Jensen Access after leaving the Game Range, but the wind was howling, the tide was out, and I was able to see only a few birds. At March Point, I was able to locate four AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS, but only at a distance. They were in the same place as last week, foraging in a small channel out in the middle of Padilla Bay at low tide. Washington Park was very, very windy. Only by standing in the forest and scoping the water from that shelter was I able to hold the scope steady enough to ID any seabirds. The highlight was a beautiful PACIFIC LOON in breeding plumage. The inner forest was quite birdy and free of wind. Just as last week, there were Townsend's Warblers singing there. Here I also saw one of only two Oregon Juncos for the day; most of them have moved on.? It was windy at Skyline, too, but there I was able to see the only Mew Gulls and Harlequin Ducks of the day. I also got to play a fun game of "find the cell-phone" there with a local resident who'd dropped one while beachcombing! Similk Beach had lots of birds, including a big flock of Greater Scaup that will probably fly north any day now. The wind was still blowing, but had somewhat abated by then. I also saw the only Horned Grebes of the day here, plus the only Dunlin of the day, a single bird flocking with Western Sandpipers. The Dunlin have almost all moved north, I suspect. On the Samish Flats, there was still a flock of about 500 Snow Geese along Bay View-Edison Road. Four of these were "Blue Geese." In the midst of this flock were 37 White-fronted Geese. There has been a lone TRUMPETER SWAN at the Skagit Airport Ponds for some time now. I understand that this bird's presence is known to the Swan Powers That Be. Yesterday it was foraging as usual, alone on the east pond, showing no sign of distress or injury. The yellow neck band reads K44. Green Road Pond on the Butler Flats was a good spot to bird at day's end. All six swallow species were here, plus lots of Canada Geese with babies, and two late CACKLING GEESE. Virginia Rails were calling, but the Sora that I'd heard here a week ago was not saying anything, if it was present. I tried to find a Bittern, but with no success. That species used to be reliable at Green Road Pond, until about fifteen years ago, when the pond habitat was "improved" or "restored." Phew! I got home very pleased to have seen 107 species of birds in one day. Sitting on my porch at 2100, just after dark, I was astonished to hear a Western Screech Owl calling, a new yard bird! However, to my dismay, as soon as I walked closer to where the sound was coming from, I realized that my ears had been deceived. I did learn something, though. A distant, winnowing WILSON'S SNIPE can sound a lot like a Western Screech Owl, especially if one is very tired, and one's ears are not what they used to be. The snipe still made 108 species for the day. Thanks to all the many birders who kept open the lines of communication at the Game Range, where so many of the good birds were yesterday. Yours truly, Gary Bletsch -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Wings, Jan Jan Stewart 922 E Spruce Street Sequim, WA 98382-3518 jstewart@olympus.net -----Original Message----- From: Tweeters On Behalf Of AMK17 Sent: Saturday, May 7, 2022 7:22 PM To: tweeters@uw.edu Subject: [Tweeters] More migration in Phinney Spotted an empid at my little pond but it disappeared by the time I got my binos. While outside looking for it A robust flock of yellow rumpled warblers flew oveR and circled back landing in the yard. And more kept dropping down from behind me. I counted over 60 flyover but lost track as they started dropping down. There must have been 75 to 100+ Must admit it was quite an rush to be surrounded by so many in such a small yard! Both Audubon's and Myrtles in this group. The plumages are spectacular now With so many variations. Left Merlin running and it id'd a white throated sparrow too but I did not see or hear it. But it was very birdie. On another note young juncos and bewicks wrens fed in the yard today as well. Seems so early. Never did find the empid... Happy migration! AKopitov Phinney Ridge, Seattle AMK17 _______________________________________________ Tweeters mailing list Tweeters@u.washington.edu http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters From rogermoyer1 at hotmail.com Sun May 8 12:03:07 2022 From: rogermoyer1 at hotmail.com (Roger Moyer) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Banded birds Message-ID: I spent some time at Grayland Beach yesterday. I was rewarded with great views of two male Snowy Plovers and numerous Semi-palmated Plovers. One of the Snowy and one Semi-Palmated Plovers were banded. Who does one give reports to. I have good pics of the Semi-palmated's band. And some ok shots of the Snowy's bands. Roger Moyer Chehalis, WA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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And some ok > shots of the Snowy's bands. > > Roger Moyer > Chehalis, WA > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From panmail at mailfence.com Sun May 8 13:21:22 2022 From: panmail at mailfence.com (pan) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] how to report banded birds (any county) Message-ID: <267627556.2070093.1652041282130@ichabod.co-bxl> Tweets, In the U. S., at least, banded birds and sightings of birds with color markers can be reported at this site. https://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/BBL/bblretrv/ The banding lab. will then report the information to the researchers involved, and you'll get information about the bird.? This applies to any wild species (not racing pigeons nor escaped pets).? 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URL: From ucd880 at comcast.net Sun May 8 14:58:58 2022 From: ucd880 at comcast.net (HAL MICHAEL) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Banded birds In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1460127802.109271.1652047138810@connect.xfinity.com> Bands are reported to the Bird Banding laboratory. They need numbers, colors/letters, and such. There is a specific place to input the data. Hal Michael Board of Directors, Ecologists Without Borders http://ecowb.org/ Olympia WA 360-459-4005 360-791-7702 (C) ucd880@comcast.net > On 05/08/2022 12:03 PM Roger Moyer wrote: > > > I spent some time at Grayland Beach yesterday. I was rewarded with great views of two male Snowy Plovers and numerous Semi-palmated Plovers. One of the Snowy and one Semi-Palmated Plovers were banded. Who does one give reports to. I have good pics of the Semi-palmated's band. And some ok shots of the Snowy's bands. > > Roger Moyer > Chehalis, WA > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karen.w.mobile at gmail.com Sun May 8 17:33:46 2022 From: karen.w.mobile at gmail.com (Karen Wosilait) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Kent Ponds/GRNRA parking? Message-ID: <5D4D7C66-61DB-49E3-B490-EA489CDBEF66@gmail.com> I tried to find Kent Ponds/GRNRA (Green River Natural Resources Area in Kent) the other day, but there are closures and detours currently. I?d greatly appreciate it if someone familiar with the current state could advise me where I might park. Thanks! Karen Wosilait (she/her) Seattle, WA karen.w.mobile@gmail.com From raphael.fennimore at gmail.com Sun May 8 17:44:51 2022 From: raphael.fennimore at gmail.com (Raphael Fennimore) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Kent Ponds/GRNRA parking? Message-ID: <47A8DA1A-547C-42A0-AB59-F7C3033374FC@gmail.com> Hello Karen, The best parking for Kent Ponds currently is on the eastern end of South 226th Street, just off of 64th Avenue - you will find space for 3 or 4 cars there. The GPS coordinates of that parking spot are (47.4004309, -122.2551664), and there is no address for the parking spots, but it is across the street and east a bit from a business called ?Ricardo Beverly Hills? at 6329 S 226th St, Kent, WA 98032. Good birding! Raphael Fennimore Normandy Park, WA > On May 8, 2022, at 5:34 PM, Karen Wosilait wrote: > ?I tried to find Kent Ponds/GRNRA (Green River Natural Resources Area in Kent) the other day, but there are closures and detours currently. I?d greatly appreciate it if someone familiar with the current state could advise me where I might park. Thanks! > > Karen Wosilait (she/her) > Seattle, WA > karen.w.mobile@gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters From jimbetz at jimbetz.com Sun May 8 18:21:03 2022 From: jimbetz at jimbetz.com (jimbetz@jimbetz.com) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] There are still Snow Geese! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20220508182103.Horde.OC72VWmKenLisjsHuUUN7KB@webmail.jimbetz.com> Hi, My wife and I are still finding Snow Geese on the Samish Flats. On Friday they were near the T, today they were in a field out from the West 90. The flock is about 300-500 birds and by far the largest group of them are younger - probably birds that fledged out last year. Perhaps the younger ones aren't in a hurry to move North because for them the first year is a gathering rather than a "rave"? I don't know how long it takes for a Snow Goose to be sexually active. I checked eBird and others are seeing them also. In fact, just on Friday I saw a larger group on Fir Island as well as the ones on the Samish Flats. **** I have been reporting them on eBird and it says "rare" and demands I document them more than simply saying I saw some and then doesn't put them up right away. This, to me at least, is one of the weaker points of eBird simply because if others are reporting them then it shouldn't be marking mine as "rare". Or at least accepting the checklist and putting it in the part of eBird that is "confirmed". I had this happen last year with a Great Egret at Ship that was getting multiple reports a day - including mine - many with photos. Phooey. - Jim in Burlington From stevechampton at gmail.com Sun May 8 18:26:17 2022 From: stevechampton at gmail.com (Steve Hampton) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Banded birds In-Reply-To: <1460127802.109271.1652047138810@connect.xfinity.com> References: <1460127802.109271.1652047138810@connect.xfinity.com> Message-ID: <555E0AC0-4658-4699-9175-57476D428608@gmail.com> To clarify, you can still report color bands even if you can?t read the numbers and letters. I do this often and often the color combination still tells the researchers information. Sent from my iPhone > On May 8, 2022, at 2:59 PM, HAL MICHAEL wrote: > > ? > Bands are reported to the Bird Banding laboratory. They need numbers, colors/letters, and such. There is a specific place to input the data. > > Hal Michael > Board of Directors, Ecologists Without Borders > Olympia WA > 360-459-4005 > 360-791-7702 (C) > ucd880@comcast.net > > >> On 05/08/2022 12:03 PM Roger Moyer wrote: >> >> >> I spent some time at Grayland Beach yesterday. I was rewarded with great views of two male Snowy Plovers and numerous Semi-palmated Plovers. One of the Snowy and one Semi-Palmated Plovers were banded. Who does one give reports to. I have good pics of the Semi-palmated's band. And some ok shots of the Snowy's bands. >> >> Roger Moyer >> Chehalis, WA >> _______________________________________________ >> Tweeters mailing list >> Tweeters@u.washington.edu >> http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From RexTak at msn.com Sun May 8 21:07:00 2022 From: RexTak at msn.com (Rex Takasugi) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Kent Ponds/GRNRA parking? In-Reply-To: <47A8DA1A-547C-42A0-AB59-F7C3033374FC@gmail.com> References: <47A8DA1A-547C-42A0-AB59-F7C3033374FC@gmail.com> Message-ID: Hi, Karen! If the graveled parking area that Raphael mentioned is fully occupied, you can also park at 47?23'56.7"N 122?15'18.1"W or 47.399075, -122.255015, which is a small, paved parking area just southeast of Ricardo Beverly Hills and is adjacent to a gated entry for FedEx. There are 4 parking spots at this location. I actually like this FedEx location better, even if it makes your walk a little longer, because I think vandals may be deterred by all the cameras FedEx probably has aimed at the gate. Walking from this paved parking area to the one Raphael mentioned is also nice because of all the trees that sometimes hold some interesting birds. At the paved parking area, you can also look north and south along the canal and sometimes see some waterfowl. I don't know, but I'm guessing that this paved parking area was built for FedEx, but there are no signs of any kind saying who can park there or not. Good birding! Rex S. Takasugi Kent, WA USA -----Original Message----- From: Tweeters On Behalf Of Raphael Fennimore Sent: Sunday, May 8, 2022 5:45 PM To: Karen Wosilait Cc: Tweeters Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Kent Ponds/GRNRA parking? Hello Karen, The best parking for Kent Ponds currently is on the eastern end of South 226th Street, just off of 64th Avenue - you will find space for 3 or 4 cars there. The GPS coordinates of that parking spot are (47.4004309, -122.2551664), and there is no address for the parking spots, but it is across the street and east a bit from a business called ?Ricardo Beverly Hills? at 6329 S 226th St, Kent, WA 98032. Good birding! Raphael Fennimore Normandy Park, WA > On May 8, 2022, at 5:34 PM, Karen Wosilait wrote: > ?I tried to find Kent Ponds/GRNRA (Green River Natural Resources Area in Kent) the other day, but there are closures and detours currently. I?d greatly appreciate it if someone familiar with the current state could advise me where I might park. 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Banded Snowy Plovers are not uncommon in OR/WA. But it would be very interesting to learn the details of the Semipalmated Plover if/when you get them back. Bob OBrien Portland. On Sun, May 8, 2022 at 12:03 PM Roger Moyer wrote: > I spent some time at Grayland Beach yesterday. I was rewarded with great > views of two male Snowy Plovers and numerous Semi-palmated Plovers. One of > the Snowy and one Semi-Palmated Plovers were banded. Who does one give > reports to. I have good pics of the Semi-palmated's band. And some ok > shots of the Snowy's bands. > > Roger Moyer > Chehalis, WA > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mattxyz at earthlink.net Mon May 9 05:35:38 2022 From: mattxyz at earthlink.net (Matt Bartels) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Washington Bird Records Committee recent decisions - Spring 2022 meeting results Message-ID: Hi Tweeters & INWBirders - Thursday, April 28, 2022, the Washington Bird Records Committee met via Zoom for a spring meeting. Normally, the spring packet of reports is only voted on remotely, with reports receiving mixed votes held-over until the annual Fall meeting. The ability to meet over Zoom allowed the committee to deliberate over these reports sooner this year. Results are also posted online at: https://wos.org/records/votingsummary/spring-2022/ Here?s a summary of our results. ? 26 reports were accepted as valid new records. ? 1 additional record was accepted as continuing sighting of a record previously accepted at an earlier meeting. ? 13 reports were not accepted. ? 2 reports were tabled for further analysis. No species were added to the official Washington state list. The list remains at 522 species, including 510 species fully accredited (supported by specimen, photograph, or recording) and 12 species which are sight-only records (supported only by written documentation). Key: Votes in parentheses (# accepted ? # not accepted ? # abstain) [Notations: p=photo, v = video, a = audio, s = sketch] ACCEPTED RECORDS EMGO-2021-1, Emperor Goose ? 6 October 2021, Myrtle Edwards Park, Seattle, King County. Sam Fason [w, p, v] (7-0-0). EMGO-2021-2, Emperor Goose ? 28-30 October 2021, Washington side of Columbia across from Fort McNary, Benton County. Bill & Nancy LaFramboise [w, p], Mason Maron [w, p], Patrick Van Thull [w, p], Maxine Reid [p] (7-0-0). EMGO-2021-3, Emperor Goose ? 4-6 November 2021, Sterino Farm, Puyallup, Pierce County. Edward Pullen [w, p] Michael Charest [p], Patrick Van Thull [p] (7-0-0). EMGO-2021-4, Emperor Goose ? 5 December 2021 ? 13 January 2022, March Point, Skagit County. Gary Bletsch [w, p], Blair Bernson [p], Jordan Gunn [p], Pamela Myers [p] (7-0-0). Two birds initially; one shot by hunters. BESW-2022-1, Bewick's Tundra Swan ? 21 January 2022, Best Road, Mt. Vernon, Skagit County. Robert Hoffman [w, p] (7-0-0). BESW-2022-2, Bewick's Tundra Swan ? 11-12 March 2022 Saltese Wetlands, Spokane County. Curtis Mahon [w, p], Tim O'Brien [w, p] (7-0-0). WHOS-2022-1, Whooper Swan ? 6 February ? 18 March 2022, Monroe Prison Farm, Monroe, Snohomish County. Phil Dickenson [w, p], Carl Haynie [w, p], Avery Lee [w, p], Neil Pankay [w], Bill Tweit [w], Melissa Hafting [p], Christian Hagenlocher [p], Jordan Roderick [p], Gregg Thompson [p], Tina Toth [p] (ID: 7-0-0; Origin: wild = 7). TBMU-2021-2, Thick-billed Murre ? 16 November 2021, Point Defiance Park, Tacoma, Pierce County. Charlie Wright [w], Will Brooks [w, p] (7-0-0) SCMU-2004-2, Scripps's Murrelet ? 10 July 2004, off shore pelagic, Grays Harbor County. Graeme Stevens, Bill Tweit [w] (7-0-0). Five individuals. LIGU-2021-1, Little Gull ? 26-28 September 2021, McNary NWR ? Two Rivers Unit, Walla Walla County. Mike & MerryLynn Denny [w], Lars Hovde [w, p], Bill & Nancy LaFramboise [w, p], Michael Woodruff [w, p], Jason Vassallo [p] (7-0-0). SLBG-2021-2, Slaty-backed Gull ? 19-27 October 2021, Cedar River Mouth & Gene Coulon Park, Renton, King County. Heidi Erland [w], Carl Haynie [w, p, v], Nadine Drisseq [p], Raphael Fennimore [p], Greg Harrington [p], John Puschock [p] (7-0-0). SLBG-2021-3, Slaty-backed Gull ? 26-30 October 2021, Clallam Bay, Clallam County. Michael Barry [w. p], Will Brooks [w, p], Steve Hampton [w, p], Jason Vassallo [p] (6-1-0). EAPH-2021-1, Eastern Phoebe ? 23 October 2021, Trilogy, Redmond, King County. Philip Magallanes [w, p] [fide Dennis Paulson] (7-0-0). EAPH-2021-2, Eastern Phoebe ? 3-12 December 2021, Deer Lagoon, Whidbey Island, Island County. Dick Holcomb [w, p], Greg Harrington [p] (7-0-0). EAPH-2021-3, Eastern Phoebe ? 11 December 2021, McNary NWR, Burbank, Walla Walla County. Bruce Toews [w] (7-0-0). RFBL-2022-1, Red-flanked Bluetail ? 17-29 March 2022, Sheridan Heights Neighborhood, Lake Forest Park, King County. Nancy Morrison [w, p], John & Tracy Bell [p], Nadine Drisseq [p], Jordan Gunn [p], Tom Mansfield [p], Ryan Merrill [p], John Puschock [p], Jason Vassallo [p] (7-0-0). PUFI-2019-2, Eastern Purple Finch ? 10-12 January 2019, Sturm Ave., Walla Walla, Walla Walla County. Timothy Parker [p] (7-0-0). HORE-2021-1, Hoary Redpoll ? 2 December 2021, Clearwater Guard Station, Umatilla NF, Garfield County. Will Brooks [w, p] (7-0-0). HORE-2021-2, Hoary Redpoll ? 31 December 2021 - 16 January 2022, Green Lake, Seattle, King County. Bill Tweit [w], Nadine Drisseq [p], Greg Harrington [p], Ryan J. Merrill [p], John Puschock [p] (7-0-0). The WBRC did not endorse sightings after 16 January 2022. OROR-2021-1, Orchard Oriole ? 8-9 October 2021, Hoquiam STP, Hoquiam, Grays Harbor County. Liam Hutcheson [w, p], Jordan Gunn [p], Greg Harrington [p], Maxine Reid [p] (7-0-0). COGR-2022-1, Common Grackle ? 2-7 February 2022, North Rd. 42, Pasco, Franklin County. Victor Hubbard [w, p], Bill & Nancy LaFramboise [w, p] (7-0-0). COGR-2022-2, Common Grackle ? 12 March 2022, Two miles west of Burlington, Skagit County. Faye Whitney [w, p] (7-0-0). GTGR-2021-1, Great-tailed Grackle ? 11-19 November 2021, Neal Road, Fall City, King County. Carl Haynie [w, p], Nadine Drisseq [p], Greg Harrington [p], John Puschock [p], Maxine Reid [p], Jordan Roderick [p], Patrick Van Thull [p] (7-0-0). BLBW-2021-1, Blackburnian Warbler ? 15-19 November 2021, Home Valley Park, Skamania County. Cara Borre [w], Marcus Roening [w], Keith Brady [w, p], John Davis [w, p], Asta Tobiassen [p] (7-0-0). BTBW-2021-3, Black-throated Blue Warbler ? 23 December 2021 ? 2 January 2022, Port Angeles, Clallam County. Michael Barry [w, p], Bob Boekelheide [w, p], Richard Klawitter [p] (7-0-0). DICK-2021-1, Dickcissel ? 20 December 2021 ? 8 March 2022, Laura Lane & Jamestown Rd., Sequim, Clallam County. Michael Barry [w, p], Bob Boekelheide [w, p], Brad Waggoner [w, p], Steve Hampton [p] (7-0-0). The WBRC considered the December and March sightings to pertain to the same individual. RECORDS ACCEPTED AS CONTINUING SIGHTINGS OF PREVIOUSLY-ACCEPTED RECORDS Slaty-backed Gull in Eastern Washington: The committee agreed that the October 2021 ? February 2022 record of a Slaty-backed Gull in Walla Walla, Benton and Franklin counties (formerly treated as SBGU-2021-4) is best treated as a returning instance of SBGU-2016-1, the prior sighting of this species in the area the previous five winters. The two records are merged and treated as SBGU-2016-1. Dates and observation info for October 2021 ? February 2022 occurrence: Slaty-backed Gull, 14 October 2021 ? 27 February 2022, Columbia Park Marina, Kamiakin HS fields, Carpet Island, Lower Monumental Dam, Benton, Franklin, & Walla Walla County. Elke Davis [p], Bill & Nancy LaFramboise [p], Sochetra Ly [p], Maxine Reid [p] (7-0-0). REPORTS NOT ACCEPTED BARG-1990-1, Barnacle Goose ? 10 November 1990, College Place, Walla Walla County. Mike & MerryLyn Denny [w, p]. (ID: 7-0-0; Origin: Uncertain/Not wild = 7). Observers reported the bird was present for two additional years ? unreviewed by WBRC. BATE-1996-1, Baikal Teal ? 7 January 1996, Montesano-Satsop Rd., Grays Harbor County (0-7-0). YBCU-2005-1, Yellow-billed Cuckoo ? 17 June 2005, Rooks Park, Walla Walla County (0-7-0). TBMU-2021-1, Thick-billed Murre ? 2 October 2021, Sand Dune Ave., Ocean Shores, Grays Harbor County (0-7-0). TBMU-2021-3, Thick-billed Murre ? 14 December 2021, Protection Island Aquatic Reserve, Clallam County (0-7-0). LIGU-2021-2, Little Gull ? 31 December 2021, Rimrock Lake, Yakima County (0-7-0). MUPE-2015-2, Murphy's Petrel ? 16 May 2015, Off-shore, 47.619, -124.894, Clallam County (0-7-0). CAEG-2022-1, Cattle Egret ? 13 February 2022, McNary NWR, Burbank, Walla Walla County (0-7-0). STSE-2022-1, Steller's Sea Eagle ? 14 February 2022, NW Coast of Camano Island, Island County (0-6-1). YBMA-2021-1, Yellow-billed Magpie ? 13 October 2021, Long Beach, Pacific County (0-7-0). YBMA-2022-1, Yellow-billed Magpie ? 20 January 2022, Overpass, Spokane County (0-7-0). PSJU-2021-1, Pink-sided Dark-eyed Junco ? 20 November 2021, Swan Creek County Park, Pierce County (0-7-0). BLPW-2021-2, Blackpoll Warbler ? 28 September 2021, Yakima Arboretum, Yakima County (3-4-0). REPORTS TABLED The following reports will be reviewed after additional input is received. HERG-2021-1, Vega Herring Gull ? 23 March 2021, Lewis River Road, Woodland, Cowlitz County. SOSP-2021-1, Eastern Song Sparrow ? 8 October 2021, Bingen Pond, Bingen, Klickitat County. OTHER DECISIONS California Condor in Washington. The WBRC reviewed historical information from the traditional knowledge of the indigenous peoples who were the first inhabitants of the region and from the early naturalists and explorers regarding the status and distribution of California Condor in present-day Washington. All of the sources confirmed that they were regular and widely distributed in the state throughout the 19th century with the Columbia River and southern Cascades being the center of their distribution. Their identifications were corroborated by accurate depictions in basketry and weavings, the consistency of the stories that formed the knowledge base of the indigenous peoples, specimens and drawings in field journals. Their status as a regular component of the state's avifauna changed by about 1900, when their population decline became evident throughout their range. 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Add Townsends, black-throated gray, and Wilson's I am at my typical year worth of warbler species.... Maybe I can coax a Yellow warbler in - does anyone make a warbler call? lol. FOY Pac slopes are back in force and had a Swainsons thrush seen and heard "whit-ing" this weekend as well. Oh - and had a white throated sparrow a few weeks ago just down the street. Happy birding - Dan Lipinski dano135@hotmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From marcydaddio89 at gmail.com Mon May 9 13:12:04 2022 From: marcydaddio89 at gmail.com (Marcy D'Addio) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Video - 5-8-22 Reb-breasted Merganser Message-ID: Here is a video of the Red-breasted Merganser seen of West Beach at Deception Pass State Park, Whidbey Island on Sunday, May 8. https://youtu.be/uORgAOThw4A Marcy D'Addio Redmond, WA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Pretty > prominent, maybe about 2"x6", but could have been bigger - I was seeing > from underside. About the color of the bags the NY Times sometimes comes > in. I was wondering if it was trash that somehow got attached to the bird, > or a deliberate identifier? Seemed awfully prominent for that. Bird was > acting if nothing unusual was going on. > > ?? > > Brad Liljequist > Phinney Ridge > Seattle > > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The place was dripping with migrants, mostly Wilson's Warblers. https://ebird.org/checklist/S109457349 good birding, On Mon, May 9, 2022 at 1:03 PM Daniel Lipinski wrote: > After nearly a decade of scanning through flocks of migrating warblers as > they move through my Bainbridge Island yard I finally saw a Nashville > warbler. Well - more like it found me. During Mother's Day brunch - right > outside my dinning room window in a vine maple (frequented by our resident > Wilson's warblers) there was a big beautiful male Nashville. Dark head, > solid bold eye-ring, yellow throat and undertail coverts - > unmistakable.... but I still confirmed it wasn't a Mac Gilvary's - neither > species I see often. It was much brighter than the OCWA in the tree with > it. That makes species 76 for the yard. Also - within the last week we've > had a switch from majority male Audubon's yellow rumps - to mostly female > with some myrtles mixed in. 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Friday included a drive from Goldendale to Bickleton. There's quite a good mix of habitat along the way, and I came across many first of year warblers (Nashville, Orange-crowned, Yellow), flycatchers (Western Kingbird, Western Wood-Pewee, Gray, Hammond's), and sparrows (Chipping, Vesper) along the way, as well as Cassin's Vireo, House Wren, and a Great Egret in a farm field early in the drive. Birding the Eastern end of the county was productive as well, with Loggerhead Shrike, and more sparrows: Brewer's and Sagebrush on Sand Ridge Road, and Lark Sparrow on Six Prong Road. Trout Lake was home base for Saturday and Sunday. Kevin Black and I birded the area, including Conboy, Panakanick Road, the Glenwood Mill Pond, and Trout Lake itself. Soras were the totem bird for the trip. At Conboy and the Mill Pond, we had them walking around in plain sight. The Mill Pond also gave us American Bittern, Virginia Rail, and a Red-naped Sapsucker. Woodpeckers were otherwise tough birds for us. We'd seen eBird reports from Conboy with pictures of some good ones, including White-headed and Black-backed, but had only Pileated and Northern Flicker there on the Willard Springs Trail. We finished our birding together at Goldendale, where we visited Low Brow Pond. This, tongue placed firmly in our cheeks, is the new "official" name of the pond along Crafton Road outside of Goldendale. It's adjacent to the Goldendale Sewage Lagoons, which are not generally available for public viewing. We had good sources letting us know that some of the birds (especially shorebirds) do make their way over to Low Brow Pond during their stay, so we gave it a shot, and did come away with a Killdeer, a Least Sandpiper, and a Greater Yellowlegs, which did indeed fly in from the pond while we were there. 124 species for the trip. Not bad at all, especially given forecasts of rain and snow, both? of which came through over the weekend. 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Further out in the bay, there were about 70 Greater Scaup, a few Buffleheads, and a flock of American Wigeons that was accompanied by 5 Eurasian Wigeon males, and at least 2 female Eurasian Wigeon. The afternoon sun light on 2 Ospreys and a fly by Bald Eagle, as well as passing Caspian Terns and Ring-billed Gulls, was very pleasant. A Barred Owl is calling as type. Jeff Gilligan Pacific County From dan.owl.reiff at gmail.com Tue May 10 02:18:30 2022 From: dan.owl.reiff at gmail.com (Dan Reiff) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] More than 100 black vultures dead south of Lancaster County, bird flu detected | Local News | lancasteronline.com Message-ID: <63259872-F8CF-48FB-AF38-93E979A8EAFE@gmail.com> https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/more-than-100-black-vultures-dead-south-of-lancaster-county-bird-flu-detected/article_3ed2c288-cfd6-11ec-980a-472ab195a2ef.html Sent from my iPhone From garybletsch at yahoo.com Tue May 10 07:41:24 2022 From: garybletsch at yahoo.com (Gary Bletsch) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] reporting banded birds References: <588044567.880703.1652193684145.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <588044567.880703.1652193684145@mail.yahoo.com> Dear Tweeters, Much useful information has been shared about the reporting of banded birds, in recent posts to Tweeters. In my opinion, it would seem best to report banded birds directly to the Bird Banding Laboratory. That way, the information is put into the big database that they maintain, while still getting back to whichever local banding project is involved, whether it be an organization that traps and removes raptors from an airport, or a shorebird monitoring project, or whatever. I just tested this out. I reported two sightings of a banded Trumpeter Swan. It was fairly easy. I typed the following into the search bar on my computer.? www dot reportband dot gov That brought me to the link below. http://www.reportband.gov >From there, it was simple to follow the prompts. One caveat must be mentioned. The mapping feature on the Bird Banding Laboratory's website is cumbersome. It kept resizing and jumping around, and then would freeze for several minutes at a time. After about ten frustrating minutes, I gave up on the map and started over.? Fortunately, the website does not require one to use the mapping feature. The two easiest alternatives are to give a street address, or to write a description of the site. I believe one can also submit latitude and longitude coordinates.? A user survey came up during the process, and I wrote to the Lab, expressing my concerns about the mapping function. I hope they can improve it. Even if you see only a number on a patagial (wing) tag or a neck band, the Lab can still figure out where the bird came from. That means that an observer does not have to go through the difficult process of reading a tiny aluminum leg band. Two days after I reported the two sightings of that swan, I received two official certificates of appreciation in my in-box!? Yours truly, Gary Bletsch -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Visit the following for all events including keynote address, etc. https://wenatcheeriverinstitute.org Swarovski Optiks will be there as a sponsor and will be showing the latest new Scopes and Binoculars. If you need any repair work or adjustments they can help. Yours for the Birds n? the Bees Jim Ullrich Sent from my iPhone From naomihimley at gmail.com Tue May 10 12:46:39 2022 From: naomihimley at gmail.com (Naomi Himley) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Sick Purple Finch Message-ID: Reporting that I had a sick male PUFI today May 10, between Port Townsend and Sequim. Taking him to wildlife rehab now. I?m taking down my feeders but am interested to know if people in Washington are considering taking down their feeders due to the recent avian influenza cases in Pierce and Spokane counties? North Olympic Peninsula, be on the lookout for sick finches. -naomi From skylark at rockisland.com Tue May 10 13:30:23 2022 From: skylark at rockisland.com (Barbara & John Jensen) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Mt Rainier Breeding Bird Survey Message-ID: <004d01d864ac$c7dad6f0$579084d0$@com> I am going to be retiring from doing the breeding bird survey at Mt Rainier and was hoping that one of you fine birders would like to take over the route . John and I started the route in 1990 and have done it almost every year since. This 25-mile route starts at the Nisqually Entrance and runs to just beyond Box Canyon and begins at 4:32 in the morning. One must have excellent bird by ear skills. Go to the USGS Breeding Bird Survey to find out more about this project if you are interested. There is a Washington State representative listed there who can also help. 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Don't know if the Goldfinch was hit by a Peregrine/other raptor or some other event. It did -not- sound like it hit a window, the glass railing on the deck, or the house. The 'cloud' of feathers was at least 6 feet away from the deck and did not appear to be coming from anywhere near the house. It was not windy - at best a gentle breeze. I left it alone and an hour or so later it was gone - so it appears to have recovered and flown off. Since I didn't see its departure I have no other info. - Jim in Burlington From jimullrich at gmail.com Wed May 11 07:50:48 2022 From: jimullrich at gmail.com (James Ullrich) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Leavenworth Spring Bird Fest | Wenatchee River Institute Message-ID: ?Hello Tweets: Master Birder Jim Danzenbaker pointed out to me that the following link is an easier way to search upcoming Leavenworth Spring Bird Fest activities. Enjoy at: https://wenatcheeriverinstitute.org/education-programs/community-programs/bird-fest.html Jim Ullrich Sent from my iPhone From esellingson at gmail.com Wed May 11 21:39:59 2022 From: esellingson at gmail.com (Eric Ellingson) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Western Kingbirds in Whatcom Message-ID: A pair of Western Kingbirds were seen together May 6-10th near Everson. Observers noted they stayed in the area and also would stop in a muddy area, nesting material? Then also, on the 10th, 18 miles away, as the crow flies, I found another in Ferndale. Common Terns, 20-ish, off Blaine Pier also a nice viewing within the last week. -- Eric Ellingson https://www.flickr.com/photos/ericellingson/ esellingson@gmail.com 360-820-6396 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Two days ago (5.10.22) there was a WARBLING VIREO. The only BULLOCK'S ORIOLE sighting I've had so far this spring was along the river at the intersection with Frager Rd on 5.8.22. Marv Breece Tukwila, WA marvbreece@q.com Pbase Images : https://www.pbase.com/marvbreece Flickr Videos : https://www.flickr.com/photos/138163614@N02/ Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHbkNzr4TaZ6ZBWfoJNvavw/featured -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shepthorp at gmail.com Thu May 12 11:41:47 2022 From: shepthorp at gmail.com (Shep Thorp) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Wednesday Walk at Billy Frank Jr Nisqually NWR for 5/11/22. Message-ID: Hi Tweets, We had a really nice birdy day at the Refuge on Wednesday with partly cloudy skies and temperatures in the 40's to 50's degree Fahrenheit. There was a Low 4.3ft Tide at 9:46am and a High 9.28ft Tide at 2:51pm. Highlights included FOY: RUDDY DUCK, SORA, SANDHILL CRANE, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, CALIFORNIA GULL, MERLIN, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, CEDAR WAXWING, BULLOCK'S ORIOLE, NASHVILLE WARBLER, and WESTERN TANAGER. Along with the Sandhill Cranes, the hundreds of VAUX'S SWIFTS and over one hundred CASPIAN TERNS were exciting to see. Starting out at the Visitor Center at 8am, a few RING-NECKED DUCK remain. We had nice looks of PIED-BILLED GREBE and HOODED MERGANSER. The warblers, robins, sparrows, finches, and swallows were well represented in the morning chorus. The Orchard in the morning was fabulous with BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK, YELLOW WARBLER, ORANGE CROWNED WARBLER, CEDAR WAXWING, and AMERICAN GOLDFINCH. We also had great looks at RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD and TREE SWALLOW both nesting in this area. The maintenance yard is good for WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW. WARBLING VIREO and WESTERN TANAGER were seen well at the Access Road entrance across from the west side of the Orchard. SWAINSON'S THRUSH was heard and seen, but very sulky as they had just arrived. The Access Road was good for waterfowl, but the numbers are dramatically lower over the last two weeks. We had nice looks at AMERICAN GREEN-WINGED TEAL, AMERICAN WIGEON, NORTHERN PINTAIL, NORTHERN SHOVELER, WOOD DUCK, MALLARD, CANADA GOOSE and additional HOODED MERGANSER with young. We were very excited to enjoy hundreds of VAUX'S SWIFT foraging insects along with Tree Swallow, BARN SWALLOW, VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOW and CLIFF SWALLOW. SORA finally vocalized at the Refuge and were persistent. Before the walk at 7am a LESSER YELLOWLEGS was observed foraging south of the old McAllister Creek Access Road. The Twin Barns Loop Trail west entrance continued the warbler show with up close looks of both Audubon's and Myrtle variety of YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER. There was a sighting of a NASHVILLE WARBLER, and great sightings of Yellow Warbler, Orange-crowned Warbler and COMMON YELLOWTHROAT. We had up close looks of BROWN CREEPER. Between the last double benched overlook and the Twin Barns cut-off we spotted a Mink. Rufous Hummingbirds are nesting in this area. The large Big Leaf Maple across the slough from the cut-off has a continuing pair of NORTHERN ROUGH-WINGED SWALLOW nesting in a cavity just above eye level. PACIFIC-SLOPE FLYCATCHER was heard in the riparian forest. The huge Cottonwood Trees adjacent to the Twin Barns, not only have a pair of nesting BALD EAGLE with a chick, but singing BULLOCK'S ORIOLE as well. Oriole were regularly heard here, as well heard around the parking lots and seen at the Visitor Center. We enjoyed two of four SANDHILL CRANES, catching a thermal and souring north out of the Refuge. The Twin Barns Overlook was great for observing Swallows and Swifts. The grasses are two high to easily see waterfowl, rails and shorebirds. VIRGINIA RAIL was heard. Out on the new dike or Nisqually Estuary Trail we had nice looks of RUDDY DUCK, CINNAMON TEAL and AMERICAN COOT in the freshwater marsh. An AMERICAN BITTERN flushed and flew across the marsh. Another pair of Bald Eagle are nesting in Cottonwoods on the east side of the surge plain on the banks of the Nisqually River. As well, a pair of PURPLE MARTIN were looking to nest in restored snag that has been previously occupied by a now agitated pair of Tree Swallow. Several SAVANNAH SPARROW, MARSH WREN and Common Yellowthroat were spotted along the way. The Nisqually Estuary Boardwalk Trail provided great looks of LEAST SANDPIPER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS x 2, and over a dozen WHIMBRELS on the mud flats. There were a few BUFFLEHEAD, COMMON GOLDENEYE, and RED-BREASTED MERGANSER remaining in McAllister Creek. We counted well over 100 CASPIAN TERN along the Creek and out on the Reach foraging, roosting and courting. There were good numbers of GREAT BLUE HERON and Bald Eagle. BELTED KINGFISHER, SPOTTED SANDPIPER and Northern Rough-winged Swallow were working the west bank of the creek. Off Luhr Beach additional Purple Martin were seen using the artificial gourds for nesting. A good size flock of wintering GREATER SCAUP remains over the oyster beds. We scoped PIGEON GUILLEMOT, RHINOCEROS AUKLET, BRANDT'S CORMORANT and a small flock of DUNLIN. On our return from the Estuary Trail, we picked up a CALIFORNIA GULL on the mud flats. There were no Short-billed Gull to be found. Four River Otter were foraging in McAllister Creek. A high flying MERLIN appeared to be hunting the Swift. Along the east side of the Twin Barns Loop Trail, we observed nesting RED-BREASTED SAPSUCKER, and DOWNY WOODPECKER. For me, a first time achieving 100 ticks on our eBird list, with 95 species seen for the day. We've seen 145 species thus far this year. Mammals seen include Eastern Cotton-tailed Rabbit, Mink, Harbor Seal, River Otter in McAllister Creek and the SE section of the Visitor Center Pond, Columbian Black-tailed Deer, and a snoozing Coyote along the east side of the Twin Barns Loop Trail. I'll be out of town for the next three weeks, a trip to Adak and Nome will keep me away. However there are numerous volunteers and regulars that will continue the Wednesday Walk while I'm away. There will be a lot of exciting bird action in the next three weeks. Until next time, happy birding. Shep -- Shep Thorp Browns Point 253-370-3742 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Why can?t we get a break??? It was dark for a long time after sunrise today, with mizzle and drizzle (but some breaks); the rain didn?t set in until mostly after the walk. Since last week, many winter birds have disappeared. A few summer birds filled in for them, but as usual the species total today was lower than the totals at the beginning of May. Highlights: a.. Canada Goose ? shared clutch of ~20 goslings below the weir b.. Mallard ? clutch of 10 ducklings at Rowing Club c.. Pied-billed Grebe ? one on lake was our first in four weeks d.. BLACK SWIFT ? maybe 8 over the Dog Meadow ? our earliest spring sighting for these ever. First of Year (FOY) e.. Vaux? Swift ? large count (50-75) over the slough late in the morning f.. WHIMBREL ? flock of 14 spent quite a while circling low over the park trying to find a place to land, East Meadow and Dog Meadow (FOY) g.. DUSKY FLYCATCHER ? one along east edge of Dog Meadow calling and twice did complete songs h.. Warbling Vireo ? maybe 5 (FOY) i.. Cedar Waxwing ? small flock(s) ? first in 6 weeks, probably returning summer residents, right on schedule j.. Lazuli Bunting ? two males at Pea Patch (FOY) As far as I know, this is the 6th record of WHIMBREL at Marymoor. On 2000-05-14, Steve Pink reported a flock of 50. 2010-06-19, John Farley reported 10. The Marymoor Survey had 2 on 2014-05-09. One was reported on eBird 2015-05-09. Earlier this year, on 2022-04-22, Barry Brugman photographed two. Jordan Roderick put a couple of great photos of today?s flock on eBird. Despite the gloom, it seemed fairy birdy today, and it was nice to get looks at BULLOCK?S ORIOLE, YELLOW WARBER, YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER, WILSON?S WARBLER, WESTERN TANAGER (at the Rowing Club), BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK, and INDIGO BUNTING. But there were quite a few heard-only birds and several seen only by one or a few of us. ?Winter? birds seen last week but not today included Green-winged Teal, Ring-necked Duck, Bufflehead, American Coot, Double-crested Cormorant, and Ruby-crowned Kinglet. Misses today included Rock Pigeon, Green Heron, Belted Kingfisher, Red-breasted Sapsucker (I may have heard one), Cliff Swallow, and Pine Siskin. Despite the misses and the departures, we still managed 68 species today. = Michael Hobbs = www.marymoor.org/birding.htm = BirdMarymoor@gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tvulture at gmx.com Thu May 12 14:46:26 2022 From: tvulture at gmx.com (Diann MacRae) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] April 2022 TUVU report Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From birdmarymoor at gmail.com Thu May 12 15:15:57 2022 From: birdmarymoor at gmail.com (birdmarymoor@gmail.com) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Marymoor Park (Redmond, King Co.) 2022-05-12 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Ooops ? To clarify, we saw LAZULI (and NOT Indigo) BUNTINGS today. From: birdmarymoor@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2022 2:42 PM To: Tweeters Subject: Marymoor Park (Redmond, King Co.) 2022-05-12 Tweets ? Our bad luck with the weather continues, as does Mayvember. Not quite as cold nor as rainy as last Thursday, but not the nice sunny weather of yesterday. Why can?t we get a break??? It was dark for a long time after sunrise today, with mizzle and drizzle (but some breaks); the rain didn?t set in until mostly after the walk. Since last week, many winter birds have disappeared. A few summer birds filled in for them, but as usual the species total today was lower than the totals at the beginning of May. Highlights: a.. Canada Goose ? shared clutch of ~20 goslings below the weir b.. Mallard ? clutch of 10 ducklings at Rowing Club c.. Pied-billed Grebe ? one on lake was our first in four weeks d.. BLACK SWIFT ? maybe 8 over the Dog Meadow ? our earliest spring sighting for these ever. First of Year (FOY) e.. Vaux? Swift ? large count (50-75) over the slough late in the morning f.. WHIMBREL ? flock of 14 spent quite a while circling low over the park trying to find a place to land, East Meadow and Dog Meadow (FOY) g.. DUSKY FLYCATCHER ? one along east edge of Dog Meadow calling and twice did complete songs h.. Warbling Vireo ? maybe 5 (FOY) i.. Cedar Waxwing ? small flock(s) ? first in 6 weeks, probably returning summer residents, right on schedule j.. Lazuli Bunting ? two males at Pea Patch (FOY) As far as I know, this is the 6th record of WHIMBREL at Marymoor. On 2000-05-14, Steve Pink reported a flock of 50. 2010-06-19, John Farley reported 10. The Marymoor Survey had 2 on 2014-05-09. One was reported on eBird 2015-05-09. Earlier this year, on 2022-04-22, Barry Brugman photographed two. Jordan Roderick put a couple of great photos of today?s flock on eBird. Despite the gloom, it seemed fairy birdy today, and it was nice to get looks at BULLOCK?S ORIOLE, YELLOW WARBER, YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER, WILSON?S WARBLER, WESTERN TANAGER (at the Rowing Club), BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK, and INDIGO BUNTING. But there were quite a few heard-only birds and several seen only by one or a few of us. ?Winter? birds seen last week but not today included Green-winged Teal, Ring-necked Duck, Bufflehead, American Coot, Double-crested Cormorant, and Ruby-crowned Kinglet. Misses today included Rock Pigeon, Green Heron, Belted Kingfisher, Red-breasted Sapsucker (I may have heard one), Cliff Swallow, and Pine Siskin. 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Ever since its inauguration by Hazel Wolf and friends in 1963, the Wenas Audubon Campout has brought birders together to experience wildlife and enjoy the habitat riches of beautiful Wenas Valley (Yakima County). For the upcoming Memorial Day Weekend, we are pleased to report that all Campout arrangements are in place: the gathering is a ?go!? Join us as, after a 2 year hiatus, we renew friendships and tradition the Wenas Campout way. For background, images and 2022 information, please visit the Wenas Audubon Campout website (wenasaudubon.org) and Facebook page (facebook.com/wenasaudubon). Field trips and more will be posted soon. It is hoped that all participants will be fully COVID-19 vaccinated. ELC @ UW dot edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This means there is space available, an unusual condition for us as otherwise our trips are largely booked until fall. May trips are great for northbound Arctic birds in breeding plumage: Sabine's Gulls, Arctic Terns, both phalaropes, jaegers. It can also be good for marine mammals, and, of course, oddities can show up anytime> Bill Tweit -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mahlness at gmail.com Sat May 14 18:53:55 2022 From: mahlness at gmail.com (Mark Ahlness) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Wandering Tattler at Charles Richey Viewpoint, West Seattle In-Reply-To: <000001d867e6$f2d1e2d0$d875a870$@plu.edu> References: <000001d867e6$f2d1e2d0$d875a870$@plu.edu> Message-ID: A few photos and a video here of this beautiful Tattler: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ahlness/ Will send in an eBird report when I can get "Rare Birds" listed as when I select it..... suggestions appreciated, thanks - Mark On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 4:05 PM wrote: > Mark Ahlness and I just returned from West Seattle views at Charles Richey > Viewpoint, and saw a Wandering Tattler out on the rocks near the apartment > building, same location as last year. It was still there when we left 10 > minutes ago. We saw it just after 3:00 p.m. or 2 hours before high tide. > > > > It was on the jetty rock farthest out in the water. > > > > Janeanne Houston > > West Seattle > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > -- Mark Ahlness mahlness@gmail.com Seattle, WA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From linda_phillips1252 at msn.com Sun May 15 10:02:40 2022 From: linda_phillips1252 at msn.com (Linda Phillips) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Diane Rudholm Message-ID: I?m hoping Diane Rudholm is on Tweeters. I want to learn more about the Kinglet nest she reported on her Ebird data from Wallace Swamp Creek Park. Diane, if you see this please e mail me. Linda Phillips Kenmore WA Sent from Mail for Windows -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From oberle at mindspring.com Sun May 15 13:54:10 2022 From: oberle at mindspring.com (Mark Oberle) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Excellent Breeding Bird Survey routes available: eastern Washington Message-ID: <3g21kp68h9-1@m0247481.ppops.net> Dear Tweets, I have been doing 4 Breeding Bird Survey routes for the last decade, but having moved across Puget Sound to Port Orchard, my 2 routes in far eastern Washington involve a lot of travel that I would like to avoid. Both of those eastern routes are very diverse and a lot of fun. If anyone would like to take them over, I would be glad to discuss. Here they are: Spring Lake BBS 89-047 near Dayton south of Spokane is in the Blue Mountains. It has a tremendous range in altitude and habitat. It starts at Spring Lake at 2100 feet and ends along a long high altitude ridge at Godman Spring campground at 5413 feet. Great bird diversity from old burns to high altitude forest. There is a DNR campground half mile from the start and two nice hotel options in Dayton, half a hour away. Twin Lakes BBS 89-031 is in Ferry County in northeast Washington and runs along Bridge Creek Road from highway 21 almost to Inchelium. The road is paved and has nice elevation gain, ending near a lake with calling loons (and the occasional moose along the way). Mark Oberle oberle@mindspring.com From dan.owl.reiff at gmail.com Sun May 15 14:46:40 2022 From: dan.owl.reiff at gmail.com (Dan Reiff) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:44 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Huge Three Page Article in Sunday Seattle Times Regarding Urban Raptor Conservancy Today!! Message-ID: <31766652-1768-4AA2-997D-8279BC7CD6BA@gmail.com> Hello Tweeters community, Congratulations to Ed Deal, Martin Muller, and Patti Loesche for their fine, ongoing work with Urban Raptor Conservancy and recognition of their efforts in today?s Sunday Seattle times. Not only is the article mentioned on the front page, there are three pages, including many photos, covering their- and their well organized volunteer group- Passion and Work. See Seattle Times, Sunday, May 15, 2022, pages E1, 4 & 5. When my friend Ed tells me how early he gets up each day- for many years-to find and monitor nests and read bands and collects data for the group?s research, I am continuing Wowed. Now that is dedication!! Truly impressive work and great, useful research, team! And thank you for your efforts. Dan Reiff MI Sent from my iPhone From lamoustique at yahoo.com Sun May 15 15:00:21 2022 From: lamoustique at yahoo.com (Michelle Maani) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Elderly suet References: <609382660.3607016.1652652021001.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <609382660.3607016.1652652021001@mail.yahoo.com> The suet probably is not good anymore.? The fat in it goes rancid and the suet gets hard.? 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From: "Marv Breece" To: "Tweeters" Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2022 3:32:39 PM Subject: more Kent Valley birding - 5.14.22 M Street, Auburn, King County American Kestrel - 1 male Killdeer - 2 w/ chick Long-billed Dowitcher - 4 Solitary Sandpiper - 1 on pond east of main large pond Western Sandpiper - 1 Least Sandpiper - 11 Tree Swallow VG Swallow NRW Swallow Bank Swallow Cliff Swallow Barn Swallow California Scrub-Jay - 2 S 204th Street, Kent, King County Solitary Sandpiper - 1 Yellow-headed Blackbird - 1 female Marv Breece Tukwila, WA marvbreece@q.com Pbase Images : https://www.pbase.com/marvbreece Flickr Videos : https://www.flickr.com/photos/138163614@N02/ Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHbkNzr4TaZ6ZBWfoJNvavw/featured -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From leschwitters at me.com Sun May 15 18:05:56 2022 From: leschwitters at me.com (Larry Schwitters) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Vaux's Happening Message-ID: <7265479A-4DF9-4F67-A6C2-55AC2B3EDA48@me.com> Our Vaux?s Happening Northbound migrations has bagged 150,000 to 400,000 Vaux?s Swifts each of the last 14 years. So far this year we?re over 600,000. We suspect the cold and wet weather is responsible. The Courtenay Museum has just gotten a chimney cam up and running. Runs super smooth. Swifts are in there now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj6oXTOgXeY Our Monroe Wagner inside chimney cam continues to run not smoothly. Three-four thousand of the wee birds in there now. https://vaux-swift-inside1.click2stream.com/ Larry Schwitters Issaquah From zoramon at mac.com Sun May 15 18:20:57 2022 From: zoramon at mac.com (Zora Monster) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Olive sided flycatcher on west Phinney Ridge In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <86BDE21C-DE16-42E8-9D9F-6F07EA9A67FC@mac.com> I?ve been looking for that bird. I have seen him each spring and fall in the birch tree just up the street, bit this past winter that tree was topped. Haven?t seen him since. Zora Dermer Phinney Ridge Sent from my iPhone > On May 15, 2022, at 3:18 PM, BRAD Liljequist wrote: > > ? > Just had an Olive-side flycatcher on a wire in front of our house below Zoo on w side of Ridge. It was conspicuously larger than the House Finches adjacent. I got some dark photos for anyone interested. Maybe fallout from this wet front? > > Also had a Townsend's, Wilson's, and Tanagers in the yard the last couple days - love migration! > > Brad Liljequist > Phinney Ridge, Seattle, WA > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tvulture at gmx.com Sun May 15 19:14:31 2022 From: tvulture at gmx.com (Diann MacRae) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Times articles Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From contopus at telus.net Mon May 16 00:41:52 2022 From: contopus at telus.net (Wayne Weber) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] White Pelicans at Portage Island, near Bellingham Message-ID: <053901d868f8$6989b440$3c9d1cc0$@net> Tweeters, Today, I tried to bird Whatcom County despite rapidly changing weather. The morning was largely a washout due to steady but not heavy rain. However, by 2 PM, the rain stopped, the ceiling lifted, the water was flat, and visibility became very good. At about 4 PM, I was driving down Lummi Shore Road on the west side of Bellingham Bay, on my way to Portage Point, an eBird hotspot. At this point, there are several low sandbars offshore which are above water most of the time. I got a big surprise when I found 4 AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS near the end of one of the sandbars. This is a rare bird in Whatcom County; they were probably stragglers from the pelican flock that has summered on and near Whidbey Island for the last 5 years or so. There were large numbers of other birds on the sandbar, including 145 CASPIAN TERNS, 60 DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTS, and numerous gulls, scoters, etc. In winter, this area usually has hundreds of Brant, scoters, etc. It is always worth a quick stop if you are driving by. A short time earlier, I had good birding near the Marine Drive bridge over the Nooksack River near its mouth. There were oodles of song birds including a BULLOCK'S ORIOLE, 9 YELLOW WARBLERS, a VAUX'S SWIFT, 5 BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAKS, etc. By way of an anticlimax, when I left Portage Point at about 5 PM, I ended up driving through one of the most torrential rainstorms I have ever seen in BC or Washington, which lasted at least 45 minutes. My timing was fortuitous. If I had been on Lummi Shore Road 90 minutes later, I wouldn't have been able to see the sandbar, let alone the pelicans! Good luck and good birding, Wayne Weber Delta, BC contopus@telus.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I did get photos, but the lighting was not the best, and I discovered AFTER that my meter was set incorrectly for what I was doing. ( all those unintended bumps of you camera and button touching messed up most of my photos for the week, but that?s wasn?t my goal anyway. I did not focus on gulls or terms, as I was working with a new birder and I needed to focus on what was relevant to her learning experience. And it did pay off. Every night we went over what was seen and heard and how we decided what it was. Anyway! Below is my eBird link. Happy birding to you all! https://ebird.org/myebird Vicki Biltz Buckley WA Vickibiltz@gmail.com -- vickibiltz@gmail.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/saw-whets_new/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Also seeing a pair of Anna's and lots of Violet-Green Swallows that zoom here, zoom there, zooming-zooming everywhere. - Jim in Burlington From jimullrich at gmail.com Mon May 16 15:33:23 2022 From: jimullrich at gmail.com (James Ullrich) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Leavenworth Spring Bird Fest 5/19-22 Message-ID: <24C18C98-D6C9-44FE-9799-575804860D13@gmail.com> Hope to see everyone in Leavenworth this weekend. Jim Ullrich https://www.facebook.com/419082691478487/posts/5123138447739531/?d=n Sent from my iPhone From marvbreece at q.com Mon May 16 15:55:37 2022 From: marvbreece at q.com (Marv Breece) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] a good day at M Street in Auburn Message-ID: <659394478.118187863.1652741737276.JavaMail.zimbra@q.com> M Street, Auburn, King County - 5.16.22 Great Egret - main pond Osprey Long-billed Dowitcher Spotted Sandpiper - 4 adults Least Sandpiper - 27 Vaux's Swift - quite a few Gray Flycatcher - 1 - near jersey barriers, path to south end of main pond Bank Swallow - 3 or 4 Lazuli Bunting - 1 male Bullock's Oriole - 1 videos in process Marv Breece Tukwila, WA marvbreece@q.com Pbase Images : https://www.pbase.com/marvbreece Flickr Videos : https://www.flickr.com/photos/138163614@N02/ Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHbkNzr4TaZ6ZBWfoJNvavw/featured -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I saw another (possibly the same bird, but I don't think so, I think it had a less russetey cap) at the north end, by the lawn bowling area. Clearly a sporting oriented bird. I will be posting about my love of Merlin audio here shortly! Just wanted to get this out so any locals could go in search if they wanted to. Brad Liljequist Phinney Ridge Seattle -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From zoramon at mac.com Mon May 16 19:59:31 2022 From: zoramon at mac.com (Zora Monster) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Off topic: Malheur In-Reply-To: <852881F3-EAC9-4B12-8F93-19BACEF3E92A@gmail.com> References: <852881F3-EAC9-4B12-8F93-19BACEF3E92A@gmail.com> Message-ID: <8C02425D-FDBD-4E01-9363-90EED2D1BB5B@mac.com> I just returned from Malheur NWR. We (my husband, my dog and I) spent the entirety of the day (Friday the 13th) driving the Blitzen Valley and walking the trails. Water at the refuge headquarters is almost gone; we saw two American avocets, a willet, and a gadwall pair (chased away by the avocets). The northern section of the drive was dry until we got near the Buena Vista ponds. In spite of the lack of water, there were many red-winged blackbirds to be found in the dried up (last year?s) bulrushes. Once we hit water, however, things got interesting. Between Buena Vista ponds and French Glen we saw at least 150 white-faced ibises, plenty of ruddy ducks, redheads, cinnamon teals, more willets, large flocks of a largish shorebirds that we could not identify (too far away for even my 200-600mm camera to capture with any detail), gadwalls and the ever present mallards. The willow stands were full of warblers, with yellow warblers the dominate species. I picked up some lifers (Forster?s tern, Brewer?s sparrow, Lewis?s woodpecker, gray flycatcher, vesper sparrow) and got some fabulous pics of a western grebe and those ibises. We also saw about a half dozen sandhill cranes. Absent in all of this were the white pelicans - not one was seen. All in all, we really enjoyed the day. Here is a link to a photo of white-faced ibises: https://www.dropbox.com/s/s3l9xv5i5bpjrg4/_DSC1912.jpg?dl=0 Note about the trails - There were lots of ticks. My husband and I have picardin treated clothing, so we did not pick up any. My dog, OTOH, had 7 when we did our evening tick check. I would not recommend going out on to the trails without taking appropriate tick avoidance measures. For anyone who has clothing for hiking and would like to have it treated, I highly recommend using Insect Shield?s Treat Your Clothes service. This is the same treatment you find in Exofficio, LL Bean and other treated clothing. The Easy Packs are economical (we had 22 articles of clothing consisting of pants, shorts and capris treated using 2 bags) and if you are a first time customer you can get 15% off on your order. Happy birding! Zora Dermer Seattle, WA > On Apr 25, 2022, at 11:04 AM, Constance Sidles wrote: > > Hey tweets, many, many thanks to all of you who replied to my question about drought conditions at Malheur. You are such a great community! In particular I was interested in the drought conditions that forced American White Pelicans to leave several years ago, resulting in a new population of these birds in our part of the world, namely, at Deer Lagoon and Crockett Lake. I wanted to predict (at least insofar as any human can predict bird decisions!) whether we are likely to retain our migratory population of American White Pelicans, even if conditions improve at Malheur well enough to support the bird flocks that fled. > > On the suggestion of one tweeter, I called the refuge's gift shop, which is staffed by local volunteers, to ask about conditions there. > > According to what she said, and also in accord with the answers that many of you sent, the picture is mixed: > > Drought conditions continue to be severe. Malheur Lake is very low, and the natural spring near the refuge visitor center is just a fraction of itself. There is water in the reservoirs but at low levels. Similar drought conditions existed last year as well. > > This seems to have affected the populations of both American White Pelicans and White-faced Ibises, another species I was interested in. I did not ask about other species that might have been affected by the drought. According to nearly everyone who responded to my request, both ibises and pelicans have experienced a drop in population. However, depending on where you go on the refuge, you can still see these birds. In fact, eBird reports that this past week, there were 8 American White Pelicans sighted on one day, and 35 White-faced Ibises on another day. > > So some birds are still present and seem to be managing with the water that remains. I would predict, then, that we will continue to see American White Pelicans at Deer Lagoon, at least in the near future, and (I hope) permanently. > > The volunteer at Malheur pointed out that fluctuations in water conditions (drought vs. flooding) swing wildly in a place like Malheur. She told me that in the 1980s, flooding was severe, so much so that the roads had to be raised up on dikes. The flooding resulted in a big increase in carp, an invasive fish. It also encouraged plant growth which, along with all the water, ended up displacing several species of birds. Now we have the opposite condition. Perhaps the birds in such a place are adapted to these swings, as sporadic as they are, much the way species are adapted to hurricanes in other parts of the country, which are also quite sporadic but present over the long term. - Connie, Seattle > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters From avnacrs4birds at outlook.com Mon May 16 20:01:14 2022 From: avnacrs4birds at outlook.com (Denis DeSilvis) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] JBLM Eagles Pride Golf Course Monthly Birdwalk - May 19th Message-ID: Hi Tweeters, The Joint Base Lewis McChord (JBLM) Eagles Pride Golf Course (GC) birdwalk is scheduled for Thursday, May 19. The JBLM Eagles Pride GC birders meet the third Thursday of each month at 8:00AM. Starting point is Bldg # 1514, Driving Range Tee, Eagles Pride Golf Course, I-5 Exit 116, Mounts Road Exit. It might be a bit damp this Thursday, so please dress for success. ;>) Also, to remind folks that haven?t been here before, you don?t need any ID to attend these birdwalks. Hope you?re able to make it! May all your birds be identified, Denis DeSilvis avnacrs 4 birds at outlook dot com Avian Acres ? Roy, WA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From stevechampton at gmail.com Tue May 17 07:04:31 2022 From: stevechampton at gmail.com (Steve Hampton) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] massive migration last night Message-ID: I stepped out my back door this morning and immediately heard Yellow Warbler, Wilson's Warbler, and Warbling Vireo. Within seconds, two Western Tanagers (calling "wheep") flew over. I went inside and checked the BirdCast (https://birdcast.info/) estimate from last night. Yep. At least for Jefferson County (and probably for all western WA), it recorded the largest migration push of the year last night -- by far, about 10x more than a typical night this May. I had a Swainson's Hawk over town last night. Birds are moving! good birding, -- Steve Hampton Port Townsend, WA (qat?y) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vickibiltz at gmail.com Tue May 17 09:31:14 2022 From: vickibiltz at gmail.com (Vicki) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Evening Grosbeaks arrival Message-ID: Hello, I just got back late last night and refilled my feeders early. Could hear the grosbeaks chatter in our forest while refilling for the day. Yesterday my husband counted 20. Two days earlier he had just one female. So she?s announced to everyone and they are trickling in at the moment. I?ve always had the Evenings, one they found their food supply. And I?ll get flocks of 50-75 and more before they finally move through. At the moment there are about 10 at the feeders. I use feeding trays, and sunflower in the shell just for them. I?ll be tracking them throughout the day and try to do an evening report. Hoping for the large numbers again. If there is anyone in the Buckley/Bonney Lake, etc area who haven?t had a chance to enjoy these beauties, please contact me privately for directions to my house. I?m hoping my Lesser Goldfinches are already nesting, but they can be a bit hard to hear with all the grosbeaks. Vicki Biltz Buckley, WA Connells Prairie area -- vickibiltz@gmail.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/saw-whets_new/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cariddellwa at gmail.com Tue May 17 11:00:16 2022 From: cariddellwa at gmail.com (Carol Riddell) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Edmonds Roundup - April 2022 Message-ID: <70C04C1F-2936-435D-97A9-30B0919CF0BF@gmail.com> Hi Tweets, We added 9 species in April and ended the month with a year list of 135. The new species, in taxonomic order, are: Eurasian Wigeon (code 3), 1 male at the marsh, 4-21 to 4-30-22, and also seen on the Sound from Water Street 4-25 and 4-30-22. (A nice find since we missed this species in 2021.) Greater Scaup (code 2), 1 at the waterfront, 4-9-22. Long-billed Dowitcher (code 3), 1 at the marsh, 4-27-22. Caspian Tern (code 2), at the waterfront and other sites, 4-8-22. Osprey (code 2), Hwy 99 cell tower nest, 4-2-22. Chipping Sparrow (code 4), 2 at the marsh, 4-27-22. Nashville Warbler (code 4), 1 in the Edmonds Lake Ballinger neighborhood. Common Yellowthroat (code 3), 1 at the marsh, 4-27-22. Black-throated Gray Warbler (code 2), Yost Park, 4-16-22. There are three species reported in eBird that we decided not to add to our year list at this time. We are reluctant to add species that lack checklist details when we do not know the birder, do not know the birding skills, and have no way to contact the reporter for specifics of the observation. Northern Shoveler (code 1) has been a perplexing miss so far this year. One report at the marsh, with no details, in late April was not confirmed by local birders who were also there that day. California Quail has become a difficult code 3 find in Edmonds. It was once much more common. There were several April reports of the species as heard only birds in unusual locations from eBirders who are unknown to us. We are thus not going to add it to our year list at this time. It always warrants a description, photo, or recording to document it here. This is so helpful when we don?t know the birding skills of the reporter or the specifics of the observation. Brewer?s Blackbird has also become a difficult code 3 in Edmonds. The species was represented here for a number of years with one adult pair that alternated between the former Senior Center at Olympic Beach and the marsh. The male disappeared and the female continued up until December 2021, most often being seen at Brackett?s Landing North. There have been no sightings of the female in 2022. In preparing this roundup I found a report of an eye-popping 4 Brewer?s Blackbirds on the waterfront by visiting birders who are unknown to us. No regular waterfront birder has reported any of this species this year. We have decided not to add the species to our year list as the report is only a tick on a checklist with no details of the observation. As always, I appreciate it when birders get in touch with me to share sightings, photos, or audio. It helps us build our collective year list. If you would like a copy of our 2022 city checklist, please request it from checklistedmonds at gmail dot com. The 2022 checklist is posted in the bird information box at the Visitor Station at the base of the public pier and is up to date through April. Good birding, Carol Riddell Edmonds, WA Abundance codes: (1) Common, (2) Uncommon, (3) Harder to find, usually seen annually, (4) Rare, 5+ records, (5) Fewer than 5 records From vickibiltz at gmail.com Tue May 17 11:19:05 2022 From: vickibiltz at gmail.com (Vicki) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] The correct link to my eBird for BIGGEST BIRDING WEEK IN AMERICA Message-ID: Guess I didn?t send the actual link to my reports? here it is, hopefully! Vicki Biltz Buckley, WA 98321 https://ebird.org/myebird -- vickibiltz@gmail.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/saw-whets_new/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The place was dripping with migrants. 61 species smashed my previous best. 25 Western Tanagers and lots of warblers and vireos, plus Blue-winged Teal and Bullock's Oriole. Full list at https://ebird.org/checklist/S110486843 Go birding! On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 7:04 AM Steve Hampton wrote: > I stepped out my back door this morning and immediately heard Yellow > Warbler, Wilson's Warbler, and Warbling Vireo. Within seconds, two Western > Tanagers (calling "wheep") flew over. > > I went inside and checked the BirdCast (https://birdcast.info/) estimate > from last night. Yep. At least for Jefferson County (and probably for all > western WA), it recorded the largest migration push of the year last night > -- by far, about 10x more than a typical night this May. > > I had a Swainson's Hawk over town last night. Birds are moving! > > good birding, > > -- > Steve Hampton > Port Townsend, WA (qat?y) > > > -- ?Steve Hampton? 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URL: From bradliljequist at msn.com Tue May 17 17:59:07 2022 From: bradliljequist at msn.com (BRAD Liljequist) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] I've become addicted to the Merlin app audio section Message-ID: This app is truly incredible. It does serve to reinforce my opinion of myself as an entrenched multi-decadal intermediate birder ?; however, I can see how it would quickly reinforce fast learning - I find learning hands on in the field to be much better and more effective than listening to things on tape. Right now, however, I'm somewhat shocked to realize how much I'm missing what it comes to birdsong supporting birding (especially during migration). I will go ahead and share these anecdotes knowing they also highlight my non-master-birder status - but guessing many here will appreciate. Last Saturday we were walking in Discovery Park, moving towards Capehart from the Utah Wetland, and saw nor heard anything significant - but I noticed "Black-headed Grosbeak" pop up on the Merlin bird song list. Without really paying much attention, I had "heard" a Robin. But yes - there on the top of a fir was a Black-headed Grosbeak. I rather proudly shared my discovery ("did you get the...") with some fellow birders we'd crossed paths with, and they rejoiced in a FOY. Wow, I thought. Cool. Then Sunday, before my wife got sick of me being completely entranced by my new toy, we were in Woodland Park and I was just letting the app roll and a bit later I noticed "Hutton's Vireo" pop up. Huh...didn't hear anything unusual. But I pressed on the Vireo on the app and it went right back to the part of the tape where the Vireo was singing - I'd missed it. Yesterday, however, nearly made my head explode. I was doing a full circuit of Woodland Park, and along the south edge, I saw and heard some Juncos doing their Junco thing, chipping, trilling, etc. I was looking at the group and pointing my mike at the group and suddenly "Chipping Sparrow" popped up on the screen. Aha! I thought, there's a flaw - I actually was rather smugly contemplating sending a correction to Cornell. The Juncos flew off, another trill sounded, and lo and behold a beautiful sparrow with a russet crown emerged, trilling for its life in full view (and sounding to me every bit a junco). Yes - a Chipping Sparrow! Moving then through the Park, I got to the north end habitat funnel by the lawn bowling (always a great place to pick up birds, where they are compressed between the lake and SR99 as they move north). "Chipping Sparrow" alighted on the screen, and I went searching - and there indeed was a Chipping Sparrow in plain sight (I believe but not sure different than first). Then, an Orange Crowned Warbler popped up on screen. I was unfamiliar with its trill - and then saw the bird. So there yesterday afternoon there was a symphony of trills - junco, Orange-Crowned, and Chipping - all with their slightly different calls. Absolutely wonderful, and I have to admit in the past, moving quickly, I might have said, yup, juncos. The app is not perfect. A squeeky dog toy yesterday read as a Red Throated Loon. I went in search of a Western Wood Pewee yesterday only to find a Towhee, and the app alternating ID'ed as one then the other. So you do have to verify. I'm sure it will get more accurate as time goes on. A final note - it does work pretty well just on its own on the phone - but I bought a small directional mic that is not too huge - a Sennheiser MKE400 - that I mounted on a hand grip from Amazon - and it seems to raise the effectiveness of the whole thing a worthwhile amount (for the time being I am forgoing the full on geekdom of a parabolic mike...but never say never). Check it out! Brad Liljequist, couch migration birding in... Phinney Ridge Seattle ...and enjoying 2 W Tanagers, and orange crowned warbler, and a B-29 from the living room... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From amk17 at earthlink.net Tue May 17 18:55:53 2022 From: amk17 at earthlink.net (Anna) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] I've become addicted to the Merlin app audio section In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <12404036-4CEB-4CFA-BC89-6390E0D194E5@earthlink.net> To echo Brad?s discovery. I too just started using Merlin and also had a chipping sparrow today and thought no way! But there it was trilling, also in Phinney Ridge. I now head out to the yard in the early mornings to discover what is in the yard with my new pal Merlin. Yesterday or day before common yellowthroat, warbling vireo, yellow warbler, orange crowned warbler and Wilson?s warbler! All found later bathing in a hidden birdbath under the climbing roses! So I too am sold on Merlin. (Although it did Id some construction noise as a great blue heron, ha). It did not pick up the black headed grosbeak but I spied a female stopping at the pond for a drink. Yellow, Wilson?s, orange crowned and yellow rumped warblers still here today as was a warbling vireo just outside my office window. Happy migration! AKopitov Seattle Sent from my iPhone with all the auto correct quirks. On May 17, 2022, at 5:59 PM, BRAD Liljequist wrote: ? This app is truly incredible. It does serve to reinforce my opinion of myself as an entrenched multi-decadal intermediate birder ?; however, I can see how it would quickly reinforce fast learning - I find learning hands on in the field to be much better and more effective than listening to things on tape. Right now, however, I'm somewhat shocked to realize how much I'm missing what it comes to birdsong supporting birding (especially during migration). I will go ahead and share these anecdotes knowing they also highlight my non-master-birder status - but guessing many here will appreciate. Last Saturday we were walking in Discovery Park, moving towards Capehart from the Utah Wetland, and saw nor heard anything significant - but I noticed "Black-headed Grosbeak" pop up on the Merlin bird song list. Without really paying much attention, I had "heard" a Robin. But yes - there on the top of a fir was a Black-headed Grosbeak. I rather proudly shared my discovery ("did you get the...") with some fellow birders we'd crossed paths with, and they rejoiced in a FOY. Wow, I thought. Cool. Then Sunday, before my wife got sick of me being completely entranced by my new toy, we were in Woodland Park and I was just letting the app roll and a bit later I noticed "Hutton's Vireo" pop up. Huh...didn't hear anything unusual. But I pressed on the Vireo on the app and it went right back to the part of the tape where the Vireo was singing - I'd missed it. Yesterday, however, nearly made my head explode. I was doing a full circuit of Woodland Park, and along the south edge, I saw and heard some Juncos doing their Junco thing, chipping, trilling, etc. I was looking at the group and pointing my mike at the group and suddenly "Chipping Sparrow" popped up on the screen. Aha! I thought, there's a flaw - I actually was rather smugly contemplating sending a correction to Cornell. The Juncos flew off, another trill sounded, and lo and behold a beautiful sparrow with a russet crown emerged, trilling for its life in full view (and sounding to me every bit a junco). Yes - a Chipping Sparrow! Moving then through the Park, I got to the north end habitat funnel by the lawn bowling (always a great place to pick up birds, where they are compressed between the lake and SR99 as they move north). "Chipping Sparrow" alighted on the screen, and I went searching - and there indeed was a Chipping Sparrow in plain sight (I believe but not sure different than first). Then, an Orange Crowned Warbler popped up on screen. I was unfamiliar with its trill - and then saw the bird. So there yesterday afternoon there was a symphony of trills - junco, Orange-Crowned, and Chipping - all with their slightly different calls. Absolutely wonderful, and I have to admit in the past, moving quickly, I might have said, yup, juncos. The app is not perfect. A squeeky dog toy yesterday read as a Red Throated Loon. I went in search of a Western Wood Pewee yesterday only to find a Towhee, and the app alternating ID'ed as one then the other. So you do have to verify. I'm sure it will get more accurate as time goes on. A final note - it does work pretty well just on its own on the phone - but I bought a small directional mic that is not too huge - a Sennheiser MKE400 - that I mounted on a hand grip from Amazon - and it seems to raise the effectiveness of the whole thing a worthwhile amount (for the time being I am forgoing the full on geekdom of a parabolic mike...but never say never). Check it out! Brad Liljequist, couch migration birding in... Phinney Ridge Seattle ...and enjoying 2 W Tanagers, and orange crowned warbler, and a B-29 from the living room... _______________________________________________ Tweeters mailing list Tweeters@u.washington.edu http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vickibiltz at gmail.com Tue May 17 21:20:04 2022 From: vickibiltz at gmail.com (Vicki) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Ohio Bird Week eBird list, finally got it right Message-ID: Thanks to Blair B for sending me directions to format the trip list. Not a huge number of birds as I was working with a new birder, and we took things pretty slow. https://ebird.org/tripreport/57382 v ickibiltz@gmail.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/saw-whets_new/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jimbetz at jimbetz.com Wed May 18 13:18:29 2022 From: jimbetz at jimbetz.com (jimbetz@jimbetz.com) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Burlington - Continuing Black-Headed Grosbeaks - and more ... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20220518131829.Horde.2H1W_W45DffGTniED4cchNE@webmail.jimbetz.com> Tweets to you! The BHGs continue to visit our back yard seed feeder. I've seen as many as 4 at once and frequently see 2 or even 3. They are pretty much "hanging out at/around the feeder" and there are a couple that I've been able to identify as "repeat visitors". Had a bit of Flicker drama today. There was a male "digging up the lawn" in search of ____. I had been watching it work its way around the yard when another bird flew in and landed about 2 feet away and immediately hopped to about a foot away and walked about half of that. The two of them "took a pose" - sort of standing with their heads raised and each one turned to the right and looking over their bill at the other and dodging their head every once in a while. Then the first one just stood stock still and leered and the second for about 30 seconds or so ... a quick 'lunge' chased off the 2nd one who flew first about 10 feet, hopped around for a bit but didn't dig in the yard at all, and then flew off. The first one went back to searching for ____ by listening and poking the grass ... seemingly unaware that the second had ever showed up. It all -seemed- to be about territorial rights. A few minutes later the first one flew up to the feeder and even landed on it - chasing away all the other birds that were there in the process. I thought that was a greedy thing to do so I went and stood close to the window until it saw me and flew off. Less than 3 minutes later the 'regulars' returned to the feeder as thought the Flicker had never been there. - Jim From jimbetz at jimbetz.com Wed May 18 13:39:03 2022 From: jimbetz at jimbetz.com (jimbetz@jimbetz.com) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] And then the Flicker decided to ... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20220518133903.Horde.uBkkfAoiJgHxN7S3Lg25pnq@webmail.jimbetz.com> ... drum on the metal flashings around the roof. Repeatedly. Pay back's a b*tch. - Jim From cohenellenr at yahoo.com Wed May 18 15:06:53 2022 From: cohenellenr at yahoo.com (cohenellenr@yahoo.com) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] NYTimes: A Birder Is Back in the Public Eye, Now on His Own Terms References: <0B68DC80-2D53-461D-BDCE-788CD8B8AA01.ref@yahoo.com> Message-ID: <0B68DC80-2D53-461D-BDCE-788CD8B8AA01@yahoo.com> A Birder Is Back in the Public Eye, Now on His Own Terms https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/17/arts/television/christian-cooper-central-park-birder.html?referringSource=articleShare From nagi.aboulenein at gmail.com Thu May 19 09:19:44 2022 From: nagi.aboulenein at gmail.com (Nagi Aboulenein) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Off topic: Malheur In-Reply-To: <8C02425D-FDBD-4E01-9363-90EED2D1BB5B@mac.com> References: <852881F3-EAC9-4B12-8F93-19BACEF3E92A@gmail.com> <8C02425D-FDBD-4E01-9363-90EED2D1BB5B@mac.com> Message-ID: <7c16e9aa-f069-49e9-80d4-c2e299ce0714@Spark> Hello All, I just wanted to add another option for treating clothing with Permethrin, and that would be the DIY option. Permethrin clothing insect repellent spray bottles can be purchased online (and possibly at stores like REI and Capella?s), and you can spray your clothes with it, then just leave them to hang overnight to dry. Treatment is supposed to be good for 6 weeks/6 washes. We did that successfully on recent trips to Mexico and Panama and it seemed to work quite well for us. We used ?Sawyer Premium Permethrin Clothing Insect Repellent? spray. Good birding! -- Nagi Aboulenein On May 16, 2022, 20:00 -0700, Zora Monster , wrote: > I just returned from Malheur NWR. We (my husband, my dog and I) spent the entirety of the day (Friday the 13th) driving the Blitzen Valley and walking the trails. Water at the refuge headquarters is almost gone; we saw two American avocets, a willet, and a gadwall pair (chased away by the avocets). The northern section of the drive was dry until we got near the Buena Vista ponds. In spite of the lack of water, there were many red-winged blackbirds to be found in the dried up (last year?s) bulrushes. Once we hit water, however, things got interesting. Between Buena Vista ponds and French Glen we saw at least 150 white-faced ibises, plenty of ruddy ducks, redheads, cinnamon teals, more willets, large flocks of a largish shorebirds that we could not identify (too far away for even my 200-600mm camera to capture with any detail), gadwalls and the ever present mallards. The willow stands were full of warblers, with yellow warblers the dominate species. I picked up some lifers (Forster?s tern, Brewer?s sparrow, Lewis?s woodpecker, gray flycatcher, vesper sparrow) and got some fabulous pics of a western grebe and those ibises. We also saw about a half dozen sandhill cranes. Absent in all of this were the white pelicans - not one was seen. All in all, we really enjoyed the day. > > Here is a link to a photo of white-faced ibises: https://www.dropbox.com/s/s3l9xv5i5bpjrg4/_DSC1912.jpg?dl=0 > > Note about the trails - There were lots of ticks. My husband and I have picardin treated clothing, so we did not pick up any. My dog, OTOH, had 7 when we did our evening tick check. I would not recommend going out on to the trails without taking appropriate tick avoidance measures. For anyone who has clothing for hiking and would like to have it treated, I highly recommend using Insect Shield?s Treat Your Clothes service. This is the same treatment you find in Exofficio, LL Bean and other treated clothing. The Easy Packs are economical (we had 22 articles of clothing consisting of pants, shorts and capris treated using 2 bags) and if you are a first time customer you can get 15% off on your order. > > Happy birding! > Zora Dermer > Seattle, WA > > > On Apr 25, 2022, at 11:04 AM, Constance Sidles wrote: > > > > Hey tweets, many, many thanks to all of you who replied to my question about drought conditions at Malheur. You are such a great community! In particular I was interested in the drought conditions that forced American White Pelicans to leave several years ago, resulting in a new population of these birds in our part of the world, namely, at Deer Lagoon and Crockett Lake. I wanted to predict (at least insofar as any human can predict bird decisions!) whether we are likely to retain our migratory population of American White Pelicans, even if conditions improve at Malheur well enough to support the bird flocks that fled. > > > > On the suggestion of one tweeter, I called the refuge's gift shop, which is staffed by local volunteers, to ask about conditions there. > > > > According to what she said, and also in accord with the answers that many of you sent, the picture is mixed: > > > > Drought conditions continue to be severe. Malheur Lake is very low, and the natural spring near the refuge visitor center is just a fraction of itself. There is water in the reservoirs but at low levels. Similar drought conditions existed last year as well. > > > > This seems to have affected the populations of both American White Pelicans and White-faced Ibises, another species I was interested in. I did not ask about other species that might have been affected by the drought. According to nearly everyone who responded to my request, both ibises and pelicans have experienced a drop in population. However, depending on where you go on the refuge, you can still see these birds. In fact, eBird reports that this past week, there were 8 American White Pelicans sighted on one day, and 35 White-faced Ibises on another day. > > > > So some birds are still present and seem to be managing with the water that remains. I would predict, then, that we will continue to see American White Pelicans at Deer Lagoon, at least in the near future, and (I hope) permanently. > > > > The volunteer at Malheur pointed out that fluctuations in water conditions (drought vs. flooding) swing wildly in a place like Malheur. She told me that in the 1980s, flooding was severe, so much so that the roads had to be raised up on dikes. The flooding resulted in a big increase in carp, an invasive fish. It also encouraged plant growth which, along with all the water, ended up displacing several species of birds. Now we have the opposite condition. Perhaps the birds in such a place are adapted to these swings, as sporadic as they are, much the way species are adapted to hurricanes in other parts of the country, which are also quite sporadic but present over the long term. - Connie, Seattle > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Tweeters mailing list > > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From steveloitz at gmail.com Thu May 19 13:17:10 2022 From: steveloitz at gmail.com (Steve Loitz) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Off topic: Malheur In-Reply-To: <7c16e9aa-f069-49e9-80d4-c2e299ce0714@Spark> References: <852881F3-EAC9-4B12-8F93-19BACEF3E92A@gmail.com> <8C02425D-FDBD-4E01-9363-90EED2D1BB5B@mac.com> <7c16e9aa-f069-49e9-80d4-c2e299ce0714@Spark> Message-ID: In my opinion, Sawyer permethrin treatment is unduly expensive. In less diplomatic terms: It's a ripoff. I have DIY treated hiking/backpacking/mountaineering clothing with permethrin for years using agricultural permethrin cut with water to c. 1-1/2% dilution. (Sawyer spray treatment is 0.5%; U.S. military treats with 2%.) Permethrin is widely used in agriculture, e.g., as a stock dip, and is relatively inexpensive. DIY treating with diluted agricultural mixture is a small fraction of the cost of the Sawyer product. Also, IME, Sawyer's 0.5% mixture is not as effective against ticks or black flies as a 1-1/2% or 2% dilution. Here is a link to a NWHikers forum thread re DIY treating with diluted agricultural permethrin products: http://www.nwhikers.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1013428 When I first contributed that that thread, I sprayed a 1-1/2% diluted mixture on the garments. Now I typically soak the garments in the mixture for a few hours, then wring out, then hang dry the garments (away from cats), then finish them off in the dryer at low heat. Before first use, I keep the treated garments in a plastic bag. Take all precautions to use permethrin and to keep liquid permethrin mixtures and freshly treated garments away from cats. Cats cannot metabolize permethrin, thus it can build up in their bodies and cause neurological damage and painful death. After a few uses, the excess permethrin off-gases and is reputed to be safe for cats, although we store our treated garments in a drawer dedicated solely to permethrin-treated clothing, where our cats have no access. If anyone has questions re DIY permethrin treatment, do not hesitate to email me. Steve Loitz Ellensburg, WA steveloitz@gmail.com On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 9:20 AM Nagi Aboulenein wrote: > Hello All, > > I just wanted to add another option for treating clothing with Permethrin, > and that would be the DIY option. > > Permethrin clothing insect repellent spray bottles can be purchased online > (and possibly at stores like REI and Capella?s), and you can spray your > clothes with it, then just leave them to hang overnight to dry. Treatment > is supposed to be good for 6 weeks/6 washes. We did that successfully on > recent trips to Mexico and Panama and it seemed to work quite well for us. > > We used ?Sawyer Premium Permethrin Clothing Insect Repellent? spray. > > Good birding! > > -- > Nagi Aboulenein > > On May 16, 2022, 20:00 -0700, Zora Monster , wrote: > > I just returned from Malheur NWR. We (my husband, my dog and I) spent the > entirety of the day (Friday the 13th) driving the Blitzen Valley and > walking the trails. Water at the refuge headquarters is almost gone; we saw > two American avocets, a willet, and a gadwall pair (chased away by the > avocets). The northern section of the drive was dry until we got near the > Buena Vista ponds. In spite of the lack of water, there were many > red-winged blackbirds to be found in the dried up (last year?s) bulrushes. > Once we hit water, however, things got interesting. Between Buena Vista > ponds and French Glen we saw at least 150 white-faced ibises, plenty of > ruddy ducks, redheads, cinnamon teals, more willets, large flocks of a > largish shorebirds that we could not identify (too far away for even my > 200-600mm camera to capture with any detail), gadwalls and the ever present > mallards. The willow stands were full of warblers, with yellow warblers the > dominate species. I picked up some lifers (Forster?s tern, Brewer?s > sparrow, Lewis?s woodpecker, gray flycatcher, vesper sparrow) and got some > fabulous pics of a western grebe and those ibises. We also saw about a half > dozen sandhill cranes. Absent in all of this were the white pelicans - not > one was seen. All in all, we really enjoyed the day. > > Here is a link to a photo of white-faced ibises: > https://www.dropbox.com/s/s3l9xv5i5bpjrg4/_DSC1912.jpg?dl=0 > > Note about the trails - There were lots of ticks. My husband and I have > picardin treated clothing, so we did not pick up any. My dog, OTOH, had 7 > when we did our evening tick check. I would not recommend going out on to > the trails without taking appropriate tick avoidance measures. For anyone > who has clothing for hiking and would like to have it treated, I highly > recommend using Insect Shield?s Treat Your Clothes service. This is the > same treatment you find in Exofficio, LL Bean and other treated clothing. > The Easy Packs are economical (we had 22 articles of clothing consisting of > pants, shorts and capris treated using 2 bags) and if you are a first time > customer you can get 15% off on your order. > > Happy birding! > Zora Dermer > Seattle, WA > > On Apr 25, 2022, at 11:04 AM, Constance Sidles > wrote: > > Hey tweets, many, many thanks to all of you who replied to my question > about drought conditions at Malheur. You are such a great community! In > particular I was interested in the drought conditions that forced American > White Pelicans to leave several years ago, resulting in a new population of > these birds in our part of the world, namely, at Deer Lagoon and Crockett > Lake. I wanted to predict (at least insofar as any human can predict bird > decisions!) whether we are likely to retain our migratory population of > American White Pelicans, even if conditions improve at Malheur well enough > to support the bird flocks that fled. > > On the suggestion of one tweeter, I called the refuge's gift shop, which > is staffed by local volunteers, to ask about conditions there. > > According to what she said, and also in accord with the answers that many > of you sent, the picture is mixed: > > Drought conditions continue to be severe. Malheur Lake is very low, and > the natural spring near the refuge visitor center is just a fraction of > itself. There is water in the reservoirs but at low levels. Similar drought > conditions existed last year as well. > > This seems to have affected the populations of both American White > Pelicans and White-faced Ibises, another species I was interested in. I did > not ask about other species that might have been affected by the drought. > According to nearly everyone who responded to my request, both ibises and > pelicans have experienced a drop in population. However, depending on where > you go on the refuge, you can still see these birds. In fact, eBird reports > that this past week, there were 8 American White Pelicans sighted on one > day, and 35 White-faced Ibises on another day. > > So some birds are still present and seem to be managing with the water > that remains. I would predict, then, that we will continue to see American > White Pelicans at Deer Lagoon, at least in the near future, and (I hope) > permanently. > > The volunteer at Malheur pointed out that fluctuations in water conditions > (drought vs. flooding) swing wildly in a place like Malheur. She told me > that in the 1980s, flooding was severe, so much so that the roads had to be > raised up on dikes. The flooding resulted in a big increase in carp, an > invasive fish. It also encouraged plant growth which, along with all the > water, ended up displacing several species of birds. Now we have the > opposite condition. 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URL: From stevechampton at gmail.com Thu May 19 14:52:21 2022 From: stevechampton at gmail.com (Steve Hampton) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] I've become addicted to the Merlin app audio section In-Reply-To: <12404036-4CEB-4CFA-BC89-6390E0D194E5@earthlink.net> References: <12404036-4CEB-4CFA-BC89-6390E0D194E5@earthlink.net> Message-ID: I am currently using Merlin for the first time, as I am traveling in Minnesota and surrounded by the songs of eastern warblers, with which I have very limited familiarity. I am using the app to help me find the birds. It doesn?t pick up on everything out there, and it is not 100% accurate, but I like the way it lights up when the one is singing and this helps me figure out which song is which bird and then I can confirm it visually. I?ve had pretty good success with this the last two mornings and it?s certainly enabling me to learn these eastern warbler songs quicker. I especially credit Merlin for alerting me to Blackburnian Warbler and Scarlet Tanager, without which I may have missed them. Sent from my iPhone > On May 17, 2022, at 8:56 PM, Anna wrote: > > ?To echo Brad?s discovery. I too just started using Merlin and also had a chipping sparrow today and thought no way! But there it was trilling, also in Phinney Ridge. I now head out to the yard in the early mornings to discover what is in the yard with my new pal Merlin. Yesterday or day before common yellowthroat, warbling vireo, yellow warbler, orange crowned warbler and Wilson?s warbler! All found later bathing in a hidden birdbath under the climbing roses! So I too am sold on Merlin. (Although it did Id some construction noise as a great blue heron, ha). > > It did not pick up the black headed grosbeak but I spied a female stopping at the pond for a drink. > > Yellow, Wilson?s, orange crowned and yellow rumped warblers still here today as was a warbling vireo just outside my office window. > > Happy migration! > > AKopitov > Seattle > > Sent from my iPhone with all the auto correct quirks. > > On May 17, 2022, at 5:59 PM, BRAD Liljequist wrote: > > ? > This app is truly incredible. It does serve to reinforce my opinion of myself as an entrenched multi-decadal intermediate birder ?; however, I can see how it would quickly reinforce fast learning - I find learning hands on in the field to be much better and more effective than listening to things on tape. Right now, however, I'm somewhat shocked to realize how much I'm missing what it comes to birdsong supporting birding (especially during migration). I will go ahead and share these anecdotes knowing they also highlight my non-master-birder status - but guessing many here will appreciate. > > Last Saturday we were walking in Discovery Park, moving towards Capehart from the Utah Wetland, and saw nor heard anything significant - but I noticed "Black-headed Grosbeak" pop up on the Merlin bird song list. Without really paying much attention, I had "heard" a Robin. But yes - there on the top of a fir was a Black-headed Grosbeak. I rather proudly shared my discovery ("did you get the...") with some fellow birders we'd crossed paths with, and they rejoiced in a FOY. Wow, I thought. Cool. > > Then Sunday, before my wife got sick of me being completely entranced by my new toy, we were in Woodland Park and I was just letting the app roll and a bit later I noticed "Hutton's Vireo" pop up. Huh...didn't hear anything unusual. But I pressed on the Vireo on the app and it went right back to the part of the tape where the Vireo was singing - I'd missed it. > > Yesterday, however, nearly made my head explode. I was doing a full circuit of Woodland Park, and along the south edge, I saw and heard some Juncos doing their Junco thing, chipping, trilling, etc. I was looking at the group and pointing my mike at the group and suddenly "Chipping Sparrow" popped up on the screen. Aha! I thought, there's a flaw - I actually was rather smugly contemplating sending a correction to Cornell. The Juncos flew off, another trill sounded, and lo and behold a beautiful sparrow with a russet crown emerged, trilling for its life in full view (and sounding to me every bit a junco). Yes - a Chipping Sparrow! > > Moving then through the Park, I got to the north end habitat funnel by the lawn bowling (always a great place to pick up birds, where they are compressed between the lake and SR99 as they move north). "Chipping Sparrow" alighted on the screen, and I went searching - and there indeed was a Chipping Sparrow in plain sight (I believe but not sure different than first). Then, an Orange Crowned Warbler popped up on screen. I was unfamiliar with its trill - and then saw the bird. So there yesterday afternoon there was a symphony of trills - junco, Orange-Crowned, and Chipping - all with their slightly different calls. Absolutely wonderful, and I have to admit in the past, moving quickly, I might have said, yup, juncos. > > The app is not perfect. A squeeky dog toy yesterday read as a Red Throated Loon. I went in search of a Western Wood Pewee yesterday only to find a Towhee, and the app alternating ID'ed as one then the other. So you do have to verify. I'm sure it will get more accurate as time goes on. > > A final note - it does work pretty well just on its own on the phone - but I bought a small directional mic that is not too huge - a Sennheiser MKE400 - that I mounted on a hand grip from Amazon - and it seems to raise the effectiveness of the whole thing a worthwhile amount (for the time being I am forgoing the full on geekdom of a parabolic mike...but never say never). > > Check it out! > > Brad Liljequist, couch migration birding in... > Phinney Ridge > Seattle > > ...and enjoying 2 W Tanagers, and orange crowned warbler, and a B-29 from the living room... > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We observed repeated direct hits by the robins to the owls head and back. This went on for at least 15 min; robins striking, owl flinching?.but it never flew. This was a new aggressive side to robins we?d never seen before. david armstrong Sent from my iPhone From ednewbold1 at yahoo.com Thu May 19 16:45:42 2022 From: ednewbold1 at yahoo.com (Ed Newbold) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Bald Eagle fails to hold on to large baby Crow on Beacon Hill References: <1748640580.450159.1653003942561.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1748640580.450159.1653003942561@mail.yahoo.com> Hi All, There are local Eagles on Beacon that are Crow-baby-hunters-by-trade this time of year. Our neighbor's Crow nest was attacked just now and I was surprised and disappointed? somewhat that the 20 or 30 Crows that rallied in defense managed to harass the Eagle enough that it dropped the baby Crow, which fell like a stone from about 50 ft, all in front of our living room window. Back in the day Red-tails used to be the ones that raided this nest site, and we've witnessed Reds holding on twice and dropping once.?? In other news we've had 2 Yellow Warblers in addition to the Orange-crowned, Wilson's and only one heard Yellow-rump today. Nashville Warblers have made a decent show at Butyl Creek this season but we are still waiting and crossing our fingers for our first MacGillivray's. Cheers, Ed Newbold, residential Beacon Hill Seattle -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kelliekvinne at hotmail.com Thu May 19 17:29:59 2022 From: kelliekvinne at hotmail.com (Kellie Sagen) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Conclusion of Ohio's Biggest Birding Week in America Message-ID: Hey Vicki and Tweets! I too was birding at Magee Marsh and surrounding areas in Ohio for 4 days (May 9-12) and it was just marvelous. I had never been birding back east so I had not seen a lot of the birds, even the common Blue Jays and Cardinals! It was actually my first ever birding trip after 26 years of birding around Puget Sound and it did not disappoint. The Kirtland's warbler was a definite highlight. I wonder if we were watching it at the same time Vicki, between 8:15-9am on Thursday the 12th?! Thanks for doing the trip report. I had not thought to do that, so I created mine after reading your post. After Ohio, my husband took me to New York to bird Central Park. If anyone in Tweeterdom is good at IDing Waterthrushes would you please look at my trip report for NYC? I think I may have seen a Louisiana. The Northerns I saw were more yellow and this one was lighter. I put it as a Louisiana/Northern Waterthrush on my checklist and have a bad photo attached. Any thoughts on the ID are appreciated. 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The view from the Puget Sound viewing station was obscured by dense fog and steady rain. Without the eyes, ears and brains of so many good birders, we dipped on several usual species. The highlight of the day was seeing 2 Bullock Oriole, a male and female foraging together. The list follows. 50 Canada Geese 2 Wood Duck 4 N. 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Swainson?s Thrush - still haven?t seen any, but more were in today, including somme singing pre-dawn Evening Grosbeak - 3 flyovers , FOY Golden-crowned Sparrow - 1- getting late Western Meadowlark - 1 in soccer fields, also late Bullock?s Oriole - 4-5 - seemed to be about 3 territories getting set up Nashville Warbler - nice looks at 1 FOY MacGillivray?s Warbler - 1 near windmill FOY - sang and then refused to come out for views despite way too long trying to glimpse it. Lazuli Bunting - ~7 - five males in the east meadow and 2 females in the garden Several of those - Nashville, MacGillivray?s Cassin?s, and even Pac-slope aren?t guaranteed any year, much less on a single day I think if I?ve got things right we had 7 firsts and overall 76 species for the day. Misses included Hooded Merganser, Rock Pigeon, Green Heron, Cliff Swallow, Western Tanager [maybe heard], Matt Bartels Seattle, WA From hank.heiberg at yahoo.com Thu May 19 19:34:57 2022 From: hank.heiberg at yahoo.com (Hank Heiberg) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Grant County References: Message-ID: <3E18034E-8AFB-4498-81B8-DD0D878D9010@yahoo.com> > ?Last week we spent an enjoyable 3 days birding in Grant County overnighting at Moses Lake. Our favorite bird sightings included? > > American Avocet in Soap Lake?s Smokiam Park: > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ljcouple/52073029157/in/dateposted/ > > Black-necked Stilts in several locations, including this one at Para/McCain?s Ponds in Adams County. > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ljcouple/52072249634/in/dateposted/ > > Yellow-headed Blackbirds in several locations including this one at Potholes State Park. > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ljcouple/52073307604/in/dateposted/ > > Photo album for the trip. > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ljcouple/albums/72177720298948325 > > eBird trip report > > https://ebird.org/tripreport/54110 > > Hank & Karen Heiberg > Issaquah, WA > > > > Sent from my iPad -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Highlights included the following: - 10 (!) warbler species: NASHVILLE (our first here); YELLOW; YELLOW-RUMPED; MACGILLIVRAY'S; ORANGE-CROWNED; HERMIT; BLACK-THROATED GRAY; WILSON'S; TOWNSEND'S; and COMMON YELLOWTHROAT - A pair of well-seen and sun-highlighted BULLOCK'S ORIOLES (our first here) - 21 WESTERN TANAGERS - 6 OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHERS - A late-nesting RED-TAILED HAWK (at the usual nest at Hodge Lake) - 9 EVENING GROSBEAKS - 6 VAUX'S SWIFTS - 3 NORTHERN ROUGH-WINGED SWALLOWS - 10 HOUSE WRENS Last species of the day: TURKEY VULTURE The JBLM Eagles Pride GC birders meet the third Thursday of each month at 8:00AM. Starting point is Bldg # 1514, Driving Range Tee, Eagles Pride Golf Course, I-5 Exit 116, Mounts Road Exit. Upcoming walks include the following: * June 16 * July 21 * August 18 Anyone is welcome to join us! >From the eBirdPNW report: 63 species Canada Goose 3 Mallard 4 Pied-billed Grebe 3 Hodge Lake Band-tailed Pigeon 13 Vaux's Swift 6 Anna's Hummingbird 2 Rufous Hummingbird 2 Great Blue Heron 1 13th hole pond Turkey Vulture 1 Bald Eagle 2 Red-tailed Hawk 3 One on nest at Hodge Lake Downy Woodpecker 2 Northern Flicker 3 Olive-sided Flycatcher 6 Western Wood-Pewee 6 Willow Flycatcher 2 Hammond's Flycatcher 1 Pacific-slope Flycatcher 2 Warbling Vireo 1 Steller's Jay 5 California Scrub-Jay 2 American Crow 6 Common Raven 4 Black-capped Chickadee 6 Chestnut-backed Chickadee 6 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 3 Hodge Lake Tree Swallow 22 Violet-green Swallow 10 Barn Swallow 25 Bushtit 2 Golden-crowned Kinglet 2 Red-breasted Nuthatch 5 Brown Creeper 2 House Wren 10 Pacific Wren 2 European Starling 19 Swainson's Thrush 4 American Robin 115 Cedar Waxwing 6 Evening Grosbeak 9 Purple Finch 10 Pine Siskin 15 American Goldfinch 11 Chipping Sparrow 4 Dark-eyed Junco 20 White-crowned Sparrow 8 Song Sparrow 17 Spotted Towhee 6 Bullock's Oriole 2 In Douglas-fir next to maintenance pond Red-winged Blackbird 6 Brown-headed Cowbird 14 Orange-crowned Warbler 7 Nashville Warbler 1 First time seen on this birdwalk - found near driving range MacGillivray's Warbler 3 Common Yellowthroat 2 Yellow Warbler 6 Yellow-rumped Warbler 5 Black-throated Gray Warbler 6 Townsend's Warbler 1 Hermit Warbler 1 Wilson's Warbler 4 Western Tanager 21 Black-headed Grosbeak 10 View this checklist online at https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Febird.org%2Fchecklist%2FS110716783&data=05%7C01%7C%7Cf5df3169e312467828bb08da3a0de190%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637886128535073514%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=VVv4lq7NPR6gmviwK%2FXP4o0uZ1WAtyJS8hkW0Yap%2FlQ%3D&reserved=0 May all your birds be identified, Denis DeSilvis Avnacrs 4 birds at outlook.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Cheers, Tim Brennan Renton [https://ebird.orghttps//static.ebird.org/images/graphics/logo-ebird-1200.png] eBird Checklist - 8 May 2022 - Glenwood Mill Pond - 16 species Hiding a checklist will exclude the taxa on it from all forms of eBird output that show a location (including bar charts, maps, and arrival/departure tables), but the observation will still be accessible to you, and will appear on your lists. ebird.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From treesyes at gmail.com Fri May 20 05:03:59 2022 From: treesyes at gmail.com (Treesyes) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Merlin sound ID Message-ID: I?m also a fan. I?m currently in western NY state for migration. I was using Merlin to sort out the abundance of song at the Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge and the app indicated a Cerulean warbler. I was skeptical but was able to find the bird foraging near the top of a dead tree. A neck breaker but a clear view. My first Cerulean in 15 years. Just to be clear, I never use Merlin or any app for playback. Tina Cohen Writing from Buffalo NY Sent from my iPhone From vickibiltz at gmail.com Fri May 20 09:28:12 2022 From: vickibiltz at gmail.com (Vicki) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Bird List Blues (long) Message-ID: Hello, so after completing the Ohio trip, I was dismayed to see that my informal NA bird list is still under 500. This is after birding over 40+ years, but not birding for huge gaps, due to family obligations (autistic son, etc) I don?t have some of the given birds that you get when you?ve birded in our state for many years. Like the White Winged Crossbill and sharp tailed grouse. I know a long trip is needed in Florida, which may likely get me over the hump. And I?m not happy counting the Flammulated Owl, as it?s been heard numerous times, but not seen. But it was recommended at the time to do so. So I have. Anyway, I?m going to try to chase more rarities this year. I do have Rustic Bunting from the Leavenworth area, Eurasian Dotterel and Blue Footed Booby from Oregon, things like that ( please don?t tell me the booby isn?t countable as I shall be terribly disappointed). Actually I think it was countable, it was in 1993 if I recall correctly, but I have to look it up. Anyway, being fully immersed in birding is infectious. And boy, does Ohio ever do that to you!!! Since I did get the desired Kirtlands, next time we go to Ohio, I think we will hit Columbus, and drive closer to Appalachia. I?m not only wanting to build my list, but revisit species I?ve not seen in many years. So that?s about it. My Evening Grosbeaks are fat and happy, not the huge numbers I?ve had in the past. But enough to break the bird seed bank. And they are eating out of my squirrel buster feeder. And eating my shelled sunflower seeds. I didn?t plan on that happening. My lesser goldfinch crew seems to have abandoned me this breeding season. I was really sporadic on winter feedings because of the siskins. So I?m being punished. I?m hoping they?ll show up later this summer when they are moving around after nesting. That is all. Vicki Biltz Buckley, WA vickibiltz@gmail.com -- vickibiltz@gmail.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/saw-whets_new/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From leschwitters at me.com Fri May 20 09:58:27 2022 From: leschwitters at me.com (Larry Schwitters) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Bird List Blues (long) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <48ABB01D-EA86-44F0-94B4-262543ACF4B7@me.com> Hello Vicki, You have it right on Florida. Have you done SE AZ and the lower Rio Grande Valley? Larry > On May 20, 2022, at 9:28 AM, Vicki wrote: > > Hello, so after completing the Ohio trip, I was dismayed to see that my informal NA bird list is still under 500. This is after birding over 40+ years, but not birding for huge gaps, due to family obligations (autistic son, etc) > I don?t have some of the given birds that you get when you?ve birded in our state for many years. Like the White Winged Crossbill and sharp tailed grouse. > I know a long trip is needed in Florida, which may likely get me over the hump. > And I?m not happy counting the Flammulated Owl, as it?s been heard numerous times, but not seen. But it was recommended at the time to do so. So I have. > Anyway, I?m going to try to chase more rarities this year. > I do have Rustic Bunting from the Leavenworth area, Eurasian Dotterel and Blue Footed Booby from Oregon, things like that ( please don?t tell me the booby isn?t countable as I shall be terribly disappointed). Actually I think it was countable, it was in 1993 if I recall correctly, but I have to look it up. > Anyway, being fully immersed in birding is infectious. And boy, does Ohio ever do that to you!!! Since I did get the desired Kirtlands, next time we go to Ohio, I think we will hit Columbus, and drive closer to Appalachia. I?m not only wanting to build my list, but revisit species I?ve not seen in many years. > So that?s about it. > My Evening Grosbeaks are fat and happy, not the huge numbers I?ve had in the past. But enough to break the bird seed bank. And they are eating out of my squirrel buster feeder. And eating my shelled sunflower seeds. I didn?t plan on that happening. > My lesser goldfinch crew seems to have abandoned me this breeding season. I was really sporadic on winter feedings because of the siskins. So I?m being punished. I?m hoping they?ll show up later this summer when they are moving around after nesting. > That is all. > Vicki Biltz > Buckley, WA > vickibiltz@gmail.com -- > > > > vickibiltz@gmail.com > http://www.flickr.com/photos/saw-whets_new/ > > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vickibiltz at gmail.com Fri May 20 12:26:04 2022 From: vickibiltz at gmail.com (Vicki) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] =?utf-8?q?Speak_of_the_devil!_My_lessers_are_here_afte?= =?utf-8?b?ciBhbGzinIU=?= Message-ID: So, looking out just now I did see my female Lesser Goldfinch on her designated feeder. Perhaps she was just lost in the crowd. And I was gone 10 days. Evening Grosbeaks do tend to drown out other bird calls, as well as distract from their presence. Not a bad thing in this situation. 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Yearsley wrote: > Where West St goes down the hill and across Squalicum Creek in the > Columbia District of Bellingham, the woods were full of western tanagers. > An excited cyclist flying down the hill on his bike claimed there was a > flock. How he managed that is hard to say, but I counted six. A big day for > tanagers. > --------------------------------------------------------------- > John Yearsley > Affiliate Professor > UW-Hydro|Computational Hydrology > University of Washington > > jyearsle@uw.edu > uw-hydro.github.io/current_member/john_yearsley > > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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They are as big as the parents so it is challenging to distinguish and count them ie there could be more. Last year there were 5 young. In any case I hope you enjoy the post! https://unionbaywatch.blogspot.com/2022/05/3-young-ravens.html Have a great day on Union Bay, where nature lives in the City! Larry Hubbell ldhubbell at comcast dot net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dougsantoni at gmail.com Sat May 21 12:45:06 2022 From: dougsantoni at gmail.com (Doug Santoni) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Evening Grosbeaks in Buckley Message-ID: I?m so grateful to Vicki Biltz in the Connell?s Prairie area of Buckley, WA, for letting me visit her beautiful, bird-filled yard and enjoy all of the Evening Grosbeaks visiting her feeders. It is always such a treat to see these gorgeous birds, and even more so when they are sitting still gorging themselves on sunflower seeds. Lots of other birds, too, including Lesser Goldfinches, Purple Finches, Black-headed Grosbeaks, and more. THANK YOU, Vicki, for being so gracious! Doug Santoni Seattle, WA Dougsantoni at gmail dot com From panmail at mailfence.com Sat May 21 12:57:43 2022 From: panmail at mailfence.com (pan) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Seattle Horned Puffin Message-ID: <1459741884.1809898.1653163063179@ichabod.co-bxl> Tweets, I apologize for not posting sooner, but I didn't think it would be repeatable.? I saw a Horned Puffin west off Seattle's Alki Point May 19 around 8:20 a. m., flying southbound with a few Rhinoceros Auklets.? Then this morning, I saw one/it again off Alki Point, circling to the west with a few Rhinoceros Auklets around 9:25.? I lost it to the west-southwest.? About 15 minutes later, probably the same bird was reported flying north with Rinoceros Auklets past West Point in Discovery Park.? So maybe continued searching would yield more sightings.? 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There are many things that can appear as "time consciousness" such as repetitive behaviors at the same time of day every day - or the way birds such as the GBH 'know' about the tides ... however these can also be explained by 'instinctual behaviors' and even 'opportunistic' (such as "did the bird know about the tide being low or did it just observe and react?"). There are -many- behaviors that birds do that appear to have some sense of time (and other things that appear to be "intelligence") - here I'm talking about things such as the Morning Serenade, the way they seem to 'just appear' at the same place about the same time every day, the way they 'just know' to follow the farm equipment and are 'always there in large numbers - without any apparent way for them to know that today is plowing/discing day', etc. I do not, particularly, consider migration to be evidence of a perception of time. But it -is- interesting to me that the Snow Geese left Skagit County so much later this year (almost a month!) Why? How did they know they should hang out here longer ("just the temperature")? Do they understand that a later arrival in the North will affect the success of the fledging survival this coming fall? Or perhaps they know that the fall will -also- arrive late this year (in the North)? So ... have you seen anything on the web? - Jim From vickibiltz at gmail.com Sat May 21 13:10:00 2022 From: vickibiltz at gmail.com (Vicki) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Evening Grosbeaks in Buckley In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Was so happy you could come! I live sharing my little bit of heaven. Vicki On Sat, May 21, 2022 at 12:45 PM Doug Santoni wrote: > I?m so grateful to Vicki Biltz in the Connell?s Prairie area of Buckley, > WA, for letting me visit her beautiful, bird-filled yard and enjoy all of > the Evening Grosbeaks visiting her feeders. 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It reminded me of years ago birding on Alaskan tundra and hearing a "plop" in the water behind me, only to find another phalarope had dropped in. Of course they were still Northern Phalaropes then! Otherwise shorebird migration seems to be about over. I did not find a single shorebird on the beach in Ocean Shores and the three Brant also seemed a bit late! Good Birding! Hans -- *Hans Feddern* Twin Lakes/Federal Way, WA thefedderns@gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From hank.heiberg at yahoo.com Sun May 22 14:05:43 2022 From: hank.heiberg at yahoo.com (Hank Heiberg) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] =?utf-8?b?TGV3aXPigJlzIFdQIHAucy4=?= References: Message-ID: The snag is south of and easily seen from orange AT&T post 1146 Hank Heiberg Issaquah WA Sent from my iPhone From mj.cygnus at gmail.com Sun May 22 14:41:24 2022 From: mj.cygnus at gmail.com (Martha Jordan) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Time and birds Message-ID: So timely to think only about human time: Humans constructed "clock time" as we now know it, likely early Eygptians and later Europeans with clocks with hands. Early humans ran on the same time as all other life....sun, moon, pull of earth, etc. Then, we constructed this construct of time as communication: meet me at 4 pm (so a clock was needed to make sure we all knew when 4 pm was), 24 hour time being a day. The sundial may have been the first, but the 24 hour clock with numbers and hands really solidified clock time as time (purely in our human minds). Clock time also comes with stressors in human lives. Now we can be early, or late, or miss a deadline, an event, a celebration. Other animals and life forms have no use for this, Thus, what is time. I observe all types of animals knowing what time it is: a dog who starts to let you know it is feeding time at 5:30pm everyday (it did not look at a clock and daylight savings time really screws them up like it does us). I have experienced captive swans do this same type of thing. The reality is, animals do tell time, as the length of the day goes by and then they are aware that something should happen. For our dogs it may be dinner, a walk, you need to get out of bed, etc. That is certainly time awareness. Yet, they know not of a clock. Birds come to my bird feeder at about the same time everyday when they know it will have been filled. Migration is certainly about time awareness. Yet there is no clock to tell them this. Birds know how to read the sun, daylight length, temperature, and such, all combining to keep, for example, the snow geese here an extra few weeks this year. How do they know this.....awareness of all their surroundings which is how we humans lived before someone invented the clock. We, humans, used all our senses to tell "time" before clocks were invented; to more closely regulate and make time a commonality point, less pinpoint accurate but functionally more liveable. Clock time has created a major stress in our lives. Suddenly we became early or late or on time. Suddenly we had schedules and timeframes and deadlines or daylight savings time.. Thankfully, animals do not have this pre knowledge of what it means to miss the timeframe or miss a deadline. It is more about life or death to wild animals when they miss the deadline. We take care of our domestic critters on a clock time frame for some folks, and on the farm clock for others, or fill in time frame you want. The wild animals continue to live "off the clock time" yet they absolutely live with a time frame. Just because a bird does not use a 24 hour clock of human construct, does not mean they do not have a keen sense of time. Indeed, animals have a great sense of time and timing. Respectfully, Martha Jordan Everett, WA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From klawitterrichard at yahoo.com Sun May 22 19:48:24 2022 From: klawitterrichard at yahoo.com (rick klawitter) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Unusually colored varied thrush References: <03D5CEBF-99E5-4949-8D75-A1E2E9A2C3A6.ref@yahoo.com> Message-ID: <03D5CEBF-99E5-4949-8D75-A1E2E9A2C3A6@yahoo.com> Hello, I mentioned this bird in an earlier post, but the link to e-bird failed. In the interest to learn how to correctly link an ebird entry to this checklist and to hopefully hear from anyone who has seen such a variant, I am repeating the post. Thanks, Richard Klawitter. Port Angeles, WA https://ebird.org/checklist/S109924997 Sent from my iPhone From garybletsch at yahoo.com Sun May 22 20:44:31 2022 From: garybletsch at yahoo.com (Gary Bletsch) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] found valuable property Fir Island References: <20134571.855965.1653277471641.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20134571.855965.1653277471641@mail.yahoo.com> Dear Tweeters, This ain't phishing!? My friend and I found some valuable property today, the twenty-second of May, while birding on Fir Island in Skagit County. The item appears to be of some worth, both intrinsic and sentimental.? Please feel free to e-mail me, if you have lost something of value there. Otherwise, the pawn shops beckon! Required bird-related section of message follows. 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We learned about this at the Wash Orn. Society on-line conference last year. Each species will have a summer and winter map consisting of thousands of blue dots (where they are increasing) and red dots (where they are decreasing). In a sense, each map will be like thousands of research papers for a specific site for a specific species. They will provide a picture of how climate, habitat, and other changes are impacting each species. Since eBird use increases dramatically each year, you can imagine there's a lot of statistical work that goes into teasing out the true trend from the data. I won't go into that here, but it's pretty cool. They are not dropping these maps online until a peer-reviewed paper on the methodology is published. On Sun, May 22, 2022 at 9:40 PM Dan Reiff wrote: > > https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/05/220519132738.htm > > > Sent from my iPhone > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > -- ?Steve Hampton? Port Townsend, WA (qat?y) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From stevechampton at gmail.com Mon May 23 05:30:51 2022 From: stevechampton at gmail.com (Steve Hampton) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Time and birds In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: To add to Martha's contribution, there's currently a lot of research into potential ecological/phenological mismatches due to climate change. In short-- a timing problem. Some birds (e.g. chickadees, warblers, flycatchers, etc) need thousands of caterpillars to fledge a single nest. They time their nesting to coincide with the emergence of this food source. With climate change, we are seeing budding and emergence of bugs 1 to 4 weeks earlier; they respond to weather. Resident birds (e.g. our local chickadees) have shown some ability to adapt and hurry up their nesting timing, but long-distance migrants (e.g. warblers and flycatchers coming from Central America) seem to be hard-wired by day-length. They're arriving only a few days earlier, with some trying to nest quickly once they arrive and realize they are behind schedule, but in general they are not adapting fast enough. Fortunately, most species are still nesting within the period of caterpillar abundance, but some (e.g. European Pied Flycatchers nesting in oaks in northern Europe) are suffering nest failures. They are missing the caterpillar boom. That's a timing problem for which they are not prepared. On Sun, May 22, 2022 at 2:42 PM Martha Jordan wrote: > So timely to think only about human time: > Humans constructed "clock time" as we now know it, likely early > Eygptians and later Europeans with clocks with hands. Early humans ran on > the same time as all other life....sun, moon, pull of earth, etc. Then, we > constructed this construct of time as communication: meet me at 4 pm (so a > clock was needed to make sure we all knew when 4 pm was), 24 hour time > being a day. The sundial may have been the first, but the 24 hour clock > with numbers and hands really solidified clock time as time (purely in our > human minds). Clock time also comes with stressors in human lives. Now we > can be early, or late, or miss a deadline, an event, a celebration. > Other animals and life forms have no use for this, Thus, what is > time. I observe all types of animals knowing what time it is: a dog who > starts to let you know it is feeding time at 5:30pm everyday (it did not > look at a clock and daylight savings time really screws them up like it > does us). I have experienced captive swans do this same type of thing. > The reality is, animals do tell time, as the length of the day goes by > and then they are aware that something should happen. For our dogs it may > be dinner, a walk, you need to get out of bed, etc. That is certainly time > awareness. Yet, they know not of a clock. Birds come to my bird feeder at > about the same time everyday when they know it will have been filled. > Migration is certainly about time awareness. Yet there is no clock to > tell them this. Birds know how to read the sun, daylight length, > temperature, and such, all combining to keep, for example, the snow geese > here an extra few weeks this year. How do they know this.....awareness of > all their surroundings which is how we humans lived before someone invented > the clock. > We, humans, used all our senses to tell "time" before clocks were > invented; to more closely regulate and make time a commonality point, less > pinpoint accurate but functionally more liveable. Clock time has created a > major stress in our lives. Suddenly we became early or late or on time. > Suddenly we had schedules and timeframes and deadlines or daylight savings > time.. Thankfully, animals do not have this pre knowledge of what it means > to miss the timeframe or miss a deadline. It is more about life or death to > wild animals when they miss the deadline. We take care of our domestic > critters on a clock time frame for some folks, and on the farm clock for > others, or fill in time frame you want. The wild animals continue to live > "off the clock time" yet they absolutely live with a time frame. > Just because a bird does not use a 24 hour clock of human construct, > does not mean they do not have a keen sense of time. > Indeed, animals have a great sense of time and timing. > > Respectfully, > Martha Jordan > Everett, WA > > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > -- ?Steve Hampton? Port Townsend, WA (qat?y) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ucd880 at comcast.net Mon May 23 06:50:37 2022 From: ucd880 at comcast.net (HAL MICHAEL) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Time and birds In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <2146213810.539253.1653313837885@connect.xfinity.com> Many (most?) birds time migration and nesting to day length. As such, changes in bud-out and insect production may change with temperature change but the sun's timing isn't changed. One can hope that the birds that have the genetics to nest earlier will be successful and adapt; and experiment in evolution. Hal Michael Board of Directors, Ecologists Without Borders http://ecowb.org/ Olympia WA 360-459-4005 360-791-7702 (C) ucd880@comcast.net > On 05/23/2022 5:30 AM Steve Hampton wrote: > > > To add to Martha's contribution, there's currently a lot of research into potential ecological/phenological mismatches due to climate change. In short-- a timing problem. > > Some birds (e.g. chickadees, warblers, flycatchers, etc) need thousands of caterpillars to fledge a single nest. They time their nesting to coincide with the emergence of this food source. > > With climate change, we are seeing budding and emergence of bugs 1 to 4 weeks earlier; they respond to weather. Resident birds (e.g. our local chickadees) have shown some ability to adapt and hurry up their nesting timing, but long-distance migrants (e.g. warblers and flycatchers coming from Central America) seem to be hard-wired by day-length. They're arriving only a few days earlier, with some trying to nest quickly once they arrive and realize they are behind schedule, but in general they are not adapting fast enough. Fortunately, most species are still nesting within the period of caterpillar abundance, but some (e.g. European Pied Flycatchers nesting in oaks in northern Europe) are suffering nest failures. They are missing the caterpillar boom. That's a timing problem for which they are not prepared. > > > > > On Sun, May 22, 2022 at 2:42 PM Martha Jordan wrote: > > > > So timely to think only about human time: > > Humans constructed "clock time" as we now know it, likely early Eygptians and later Europeans with clocks with hands. Early humans ran on the same time as all other life....sun, moon, pull of earth, etc. Then, we constructed this construct of time as communication: meet me at 4 pm (so a clock was needed to make sure we all knew when 4 pm was), 24 hour time being a day. The sundial may have been the first, but the 24 hour clock with numbers and hands really solidified clock time as time (purely in our human minds). Clock time also comes with stressors in human lives. Now we can be early, or late, or miss a deadline, an event, a celebration. > > Other animals and life forms have no use for this, Thus, what is time. I observe all types of animals knowing what time it is: a dog who starts to let you know it is feeding time at 5:30pm everyday (it did not look at a clock and daylight savings time really screws them up like it does us). I have experienced captive swans do this same type of thing. > > The reality is, animals do tell time, as the length of the day goes by and then they are aware that something should happen. For our dogs it may be dinner, a walk, you need to get out of bed, etc. That is certainly time awareness. Yet, they know not of a clock. Birds come to my bird feeder at about the same time everyday when they know it will have been filled. > > Migration is certainly about time awareness. Yet there is no clock to tell them this. Birds know how to read the sun, daylight length, temperature, and such, all combining to keep, for example, the snow geese here an extra few weeks this year. How do they know this.....awareness of all their surroundings which is how we humans lived before someone invented the clock. > > We, humans, used all our senses to tell "time" before clocks were invented; to more closely regulate and make time a commonality point, less pinpoint accurate but functionally more liveable. Clock time has created a major stress in our lives. Suddenly we became early or late or on time. Suddenly we had schedules and timeframes and deadlines or daylight savings time.. Thankfully, animals do not have this pre knowledge of what it means to miss the timeframe or miss a deadline. It is more about life or death to wild animals when they miss the deadline. We take care of our domestic critters on a clock time frame for some folks, and on the farm clock for others, or fill in time frame you want. The wild animals continue to live "off the clock time" yet they absolutely live with a time frame. > > Just because a bird does not use a 24 hour clock of human construct, does not mean they do not have a keen sense of time. > > Indeed, animals have a great sense of time and timing. > > > > Respectfully, > > Martha Jordan > > Everett, WA > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Tweeters mailing list > > Tweeters@u.washington.edu mailto:Tweeters@u.washington.edu > > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > > > > > > > -- > Steve Hampton > Port Townsend, WA (qat?y) > > > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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There were also several WILSON?S PHALAROPES on the same small pond. The exact location is 49?55?07? N, 122? 26?55? N. The pond is a few hundred metres west of Hannegan Road, between Abbot Road and Van Dyk Road. A scope is needed. At least 8 birders saw them. With any luck, they will still be there today and/or tomorrow. I will be looking for them today!! Good luck and good birding! Wayne Weber Delta, BC contopus@telus.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From weedsrus1 at gmail.com Mon May 23 08:03:10 2022 From: weedsrus1 at gmail.com (Nancy Morrison) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Red-Winged Blackbird California Bicolor? Message-ID: I photographed a female Red-winged Blackbird at the north end of Lake Washington with unusual coloration. She had a very orange chin and line above the eye. I would love some information about this bird. Is it common here? Is it the California Bicolor? I am including a link to my Facebook page. Thank you! https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10229058142459637&set=a.1154773350921 Nancy Morrison -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From stevechampton at gmail.com Mon May 23 09:05:45 2022 From: stevechampton at gmail.com (Steve Hampton) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Time and birds In-Reply-To: <2146213810.539253.1653313837885@connect.xfinity.com> References: <2146213810.539253.1653313837885@connect.xfinity.com> Message-ID: <47B58F3F-1AFB-4638-B603-01E08A94A9E4@gmail.com> In general, yes, but some research has shown chickadees and possibly other non-migratory species to be a little more flexible. For those interested in a collection of the latest research on birds and climate change, I?ve posted a summary of papers with abstracts at ?Birds and Climate Change? Facebook group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/393536755407791/?exp=93fa Sent from my iPhone > On May 23, 2022, at 8:51 AM, HAL MICHAEL wrote: > > ? > Many (most?) birds time migration and nesting to day length. As such, changes in bud-out and insect production may change with temperature change but the sun's timing isn't changed. One can hope that the birds that have the genetics to nest earlier will be successful and adapt; and experiment in evolution. > > > > > Hal Michael > Board of Directors, Ecologists Without Borders > Olympia WA > 360-459-4005 > 360-791-7702 (C) > ucd880@comcast.net > > >> On 05/23/2022 5:30 AM Steve Hampton wrote: >> >> >> To add to Martha's contribution, there's currently a lot of research into potential ecological/phenological mismatches due to climate change. In short-- a timing problem. >> >> Some birds (e.g. chickadees, warblers, flycatchers, etc) need thousands of caterpillars to fledge a single nest. They time their nesting to coincide with the emergence of this food source. >> >> With climate change, we are seeing budding and emergence of bugs 1 to 4 weeks earlier; they respond to weather. Resident birds (e.g. our local chickadees) have shown some ability to adapt and hurry up their nesting timing, but long-distance migrants (e.g. warblers and flycatchers coming from Central America) seem to be hard-wired by day-length. They're arriving only a few days earlier, with some trying to nest quickly once they arrive and realize they are behind schedule, but in general they are not adapting fast enough. Fortunately, most species are still nesting within the period of caterpillar abundance, but some (e.g. European Pied Flycatchers nesting in oaks in northern Europe) are suffering nest failures. They are missing the caterpillar boom. That's a timing problem for which they are not prepared. >> >> >> >> >> On Sun, May 22, 2022 at 2:42 PM Martha Jordan wrote: >> So timely to think only about human time: >> Humans constructed "clock time" as we now know it, likely early Eygptians and later Europeans with clocks with hands. Early humans ran on the same time as all other life....sun, moon, pull of earth, etc. Then, we constructed this construct of time as communication: meet me at 4 pm (so a clock was needed to make sure we all knew when 4 pm was), 24 hour time being a day. The sundial may have been the first, but the 24 hour clock with numbers and hands really solidified clock time as time (purely in our human minds). Clock time also comes with stressors in human lives. Now we can be early, or late, or miss a deadline, an event, a celebration. >> Other animals and life forms have no use for this, Thus, what is time. I observe all types of animals knowing what time it is: a dog who starts to let you know it is feeding time at 5:30pm everyday (it did not look at a clock and daylight savings time really screws them up like it does us). I have experienced captive swans do this same type of thing. >> The reality is, animals do tell time, as the length of the day goes by and then they are aware that something should happen. For our dogs it may be dinner, a walk, you need to get out of bed, etc. That is certainly time awareness. Yet, they know not of a clock. Birds come to my bird feeder at about the same time everyday when they know it will have been filled. >> Migration is certainly about time awareness. Yet there is no clock to tell them this. Birds know how to read the sun, daylight length, temperature, and such, all combining to keep, for example, the snow geese here an extra few weeks this year. How do they know this.....awareness of all their surroundings which is how we humans lived before someone invented the clock. >> We, humans, used all our senses to tell "time" before clocks were invented; to more closely regulate and make time a commonality point, less pinpoint accurate but functionally more liveable. Clock time has created a major stress in our lives. Suddenly we became early or late or on time. Suddenly we had schedules and timeframes and deadlines or daylight savings time.. Thankfully, animals do not have this pre knowledge of what it means to miss the timeframe or miss a deadline. It is more about life or death to wild animals when they miss the deadline. We take care of our domestic critters on a clock time frame for some folks, and on the farm clock for others, or fill in time frame you want. The wild animals continue to live "off the clock time" yet they absolutely live with a time frame. >> Just because a bird does not use a 24 hour clock of human construct, does not mean they do not have a keen sense of time. >> Indeed, animals have a great sense of time and timing. >> >> Respectfully, >> Martha Jordan >> Everett, WA >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tweeters mailing list >> Tweeters@u.washington.edu >> http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters >> >> >> -- >> ?Steve Hampton? >> Port Townsend, WA (qat?y) >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tweeters mailing list >> Tweeters@u.washington.edu >> http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From benedict.t at comcast.net Mon May 23 09:28:21 2022 From: benedict.t at comcast.net (Tom Benedict) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Optics Repairs... Message-ID: <16C284BD-92D5-4C78-8D51-70B9AC82060E@comcast.net> I?ve had a couple of pair of binoculars ?die? over the past few decades. It?s a shame to throw them out or put them in a drawer. It seems like it should be possible to repair them. I?m not talking about catastrophic damage, just normal use where things get out of alignment. In each case I?ve submitted them to a repair facility and they?ve been returned as ?not repairable?. In my most recent case, there were ?too many corroded fasteners? in my 20 year old Swift Audubon 8.5x44 ?Waterproof? pair. Is it simply that the cost of repair labor is so great and the cost of optics so low? Do most birders have a drawer full of unserviceable binoculars? Tom Benedict Seahurst, WA From dennispaulson at comcast.net Mon May 23 10:30:52 2022 From: dennispaulson at comcast.net (Dennis Paulson) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Red-Winged Blackbird California Bicolor? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <482058756.551628.1653327052991@connect.xfinity.com> Nancy, Quite a few female Red-winged Blackbirds have reddish throats, including in this region. I don't know if they are territorially dominant to other females or if there is any other advantage in that color, but it is widely present in a small proportion of females. Looking at a tray full of female redwing specimens from Washington in the Slater Museum right now, I see around 10-15% of the females have pinkish to reddish throats. Dennis Paulson Seattle > On 05/23/2022 8:03 AM Nancy Morrison wrote: > > > I photographed a female Red-winged Blackbird at the north end of Lake Washington with unusual coloration. She had a very orange chin and line above the eye. I would love some information about this bird. Is it common here? Is it the California Bicolor? I am including a link to my Facebook page. Thank you! > > https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10229058142459637&set=a.1154773350921 > > Nancy Morrison > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vickibiltz at gmail.com Mon May 23 12:46:21 2022 From: vickibiltz at gmail.com (Vicki) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] =?utf-8?q?OMG=E2=80=A6A_Red_Tail_almost_took_out_my_Ba?= =?utf-8?q?nd_Rail!?= Message-ID: I?ve always had Coopers in our garden. Just now after video taping my noisy Grosbeaks I sat down and an adult Red tail swooped down and tried for a Band Tailed Pigeon!!! What an honor. Of course now the grosbeaks have disbursed. So no more video for now. If only I had caught that on film??? 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Broad concepts like that - not the human constructs that divide time up into 'artificial' segments. ===> And wondering if anyone has seen any research on this topic. If birds do understand time - it would, to me at least, contribute to their 'intelligence'. - Jim in Burlington From vickibiltz at gmail.com Mon May 23 13:03:40 2022 From: vickibiltz at gmail.com (Vicki) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] A House Wren!!! Message-ID: OMG. I was walking through the forst and heard a house wren. Did my ears deceive me? NO! I played a call and he flew right up to my face. I?ll have to grab my camera now. And there are two calling. I had one about 25 yrs ago at our home in Bonney Lake, this is unreal. Vicki Biltz Currently mesmerized by birds calling near the swampy woodlands. -- vickibiltz@gmail.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/saw-whets_new/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From schasecredo at gmail.com Mon May 23 13:04:46 2022 From: schasecredo at gmail.com (Stephen) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Black-necked Stilts near Lynden, WA In-Reply-To: <002f01d86eb2$cd0f84d0$672e8e70$@net> References: <002f01d86eb2$cd0f84d0$672e8e70$@net> Message-ID: <794C080D-228B-49F4-8542-A9539FE531A2@gmail.com> Just to clarify: I found the stilts and phalaropes at the spot Wayne referenced, but they were flushed by an eagle. Levi Grudzinski refound them on Nooksack Road just south of Clearbrook Road towards Sumas. There were at least 10 Wilson?s Phalaropes plus a Pectoral Sandpiper with them. I?m not sure if they were still there today. Stephen Chase > On May 23, 2022, at 7:38 AM, Wayne Weber wrote: > > ? > Tweeters, > > Phil Calise of Blaine, WA reported seeing two BLACK-NECKED STILTS yesterday (May 22) at Hannegan Flats, just south of Lynden, WA. There were also several WILSON?S PHALAROPES on the same small pond. > > The exact location is 49?55?07? N, 122? 26?55? N. The pond is a few hundred metres west of Hannegan Road, between Abbot Road and Van Dyk Road. A scope is needed. At least 8 birders saw them. > > With any luck, they will still be there today and/or tomorrow. I will be looking for them today!! > > Good luck and good birding! > > Wayne Weber > Delta, BC > contopus@telus.net > > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From danerika at gmail.com Mon May 23 13:17:23 2022 From: danerika at gmail.com (dan&erika) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Black necked stilts... Nlsqually nwr Message-ID: Erika found two black necked stilts south of the marsh dike trail today a little after noon. -- Dan or Erika Tallman Olympia, Washington danerika@gmail.com ".... the best shod travel with wet feet...Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes ....??H. D. Thoreau -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From meetings at wos.org Mon May 23 14:01:23 2022 From: meetings at wos.org (meetings@wos.org) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] =?utf-8?q?WOS_Monthly_Meeting=2C_June_6=2C_7=3A30_pm_?= =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=93_WOS_Member_Photo_Night?= Message-ID: <20220523210123.24915.qmail@s401.sureserver.com> On Monday June 6, 2022, the Washington Ornithological Society (WOS) invites you to our final Monthly Meeting of this season.??The program will be our ever-popular "WOS Members? Photo Night.???Attendees can anticipate a full evening's worth of photos and insights from new and old favorite birding locations.??We appreciate those who have responded so far to our Call-to-Members ? WOS Members with photos to share may continue to step up to join through May 29 by writing to ELC@UW.EDU (please place WOS Member Photo Night in the subject line).??We thank our Member presenters in advance, for sharing their photographic and story-telling skills, and invite all to join us and enjoy the program! Where:??Via Zoom (Sign-in begins at 7:15 pm) When joining the meeting, we ask that you mute your device and make certain that your camera is turned off. WOS Monthly Meetings remain open to all as we continue to welcome the wider birding community to join us online.??Please join us! For login information, go to http://wos.org/about-wos/monthly-meetings/.??While there, if you are not yet a member, I hope you will consider becoming one. Thanks to the generosity of our presenters, previously recorded programs are available at the following link to the WOS YouTube Channel:??https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC657f_RhriAUIwS_P1m5_nQ. Vicki King, WOS Program Coordinator From marcus at rainierconnect.com Mon May 23 14:45:47 2022 From: marcus at rainierconnect.com (Marcus Roening) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] 1000s of Western Tanagers Message-ID: <67B0CC27-E334-44B5-9DE9-25C68D0E33E2@rainierconnect.com> Hi Tweets, Tacoma/Ruston at the upper portion of Dune Peninsula Park has once again shown remarkable flights of Western Tanagers this year (and likely hundreds of years?). Charlie Wright & Will Brooks, who ?discovered? this location, have been tallying this spectacle most every morning this week. The tallies from Charlie?s lists: 5/13. 139 5/17. 2203 5/19. 7 5/20 17 5/22 4705!! 5/23 ~200 (when I left) The viewing area is at the top of the hill at the top of the giant staircase and multi slide play area. You can park at Dune and follow the winding path up the hill or park near the boat launch area and take the stairs up. From on top of the gravel lot you look over into Pt Defiance Park along with sweeping Scope views of Commencement Bay. Light winds generally from the north seem to be best and southerly or high winds not so good. The tanagers start appearing around 8:00 am flying along the skyline and sometimes overhead. Good birding, Marcus Roening Tacoma WA Sent from my iPhone -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From poole9561 at msn.com Mon May 23 14:50:47 2022 From: poole9561 at msn.com (DONNA POOLE) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Optics Repairs... In-Reply-To: <16C284BD-92D5-4C78-8D51-70B9AC82060E@comcast.net> References: <16C284BD-92D5-4C78-8D51-70B9AC82060E@comcast.net> Message-ID: I would look for a brand that has a lifetime warranty. I just sent the first good pair of binoculars I bought years ago back to Vortex with a pre-paid shipping label paid for by Vortex. I had no receipt or proof of purchase. They will either repair or replace them within 3 weeks. Donna L Poole ________________________________ From: Tweeters on behalf of Tom Benedict Sent: Monday, May 23, 2022 9:28 AM To: Tweeters Subject: [Tweeters] Optics Repairs... I?ve had a couple of pair of binoculars ?die? over the past few decades. It?s a shame to throw them out or put them in a drawer. It seems like it should be possible to repair them. I?m not talking about catastrophic damage, just normal use where things get out of alignment. In each case I?ve submitted them to a repair facility and they?ve been returned as ?not repairable?. In my most recent case, there were ?too many corroded fasteners? in my 20 year old Swift Audubon 8.5x44 ?Waterproof? pair. Is it simply that the cost of repair labor is so great and the cost of optics so low? Do most birders have a drawer full of unserviceable binoculars? Tom Benedict Seahurst, WA _______________________________________________ Tweeters mailing list Tweeters@u.washington.edu https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmailman11.u.washington.edu%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Ftweeters&data=05%7C01%7C%7C848b1ccd39c84379448a08da3cd95844%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637889201429574201%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=PahDO%2F%2BIGz24ZUZI08CkfntB1OM8WvQP%2B%2FmRZg2mIXs%3D&reserved=0 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nagi.aboulenein at gmail.com Mon May 23 14:53:12 2022 From: nagi.aboulenein at gmail.com (Nagi Aboulenein) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Optics Repairs... In-Reply-To: References: <16C284BD-92D5-4C78-8D51-70B9AC82060E@comcast.net> Message-ID: <419d6300-0b8a-4fda-b322-91c5642d8d3c@Spark> I will second Donna?s recommendation of Vortex. Their warranty is outstanding and no-questions-asked. If they can repair it, they will. And if not, they?ll replace with a comparable or better current model. They've consistently been a pleasure to deal with. Nagi On May 23, 2022, 14:51 -0700, DONNA POOLE , wrote: > I would look for a brand that has a lifetime?warranty.? I just sent the first good pair of binoculars I bought years ago back to Vortex with a pre-paid?shipping?label paid for by Vortex.? I had no receipt or proof of purchase.? They will either repair or replace them within 3 weeks. > > Donna L Poole > From: Tweeters on behalf of Tom Benedict > Sent: Monday, May 23, 2022 9:28 AM > To: Tweeters > Subject: [Tweeters] Optics Repairs... > > I?ve had a couple of pair of binoculars ?die? over the past few decades. It?s a shame to throw them out or put them in a drawer. It seems like it should be possible to repair them. > > I?m not talking about catastrophic damage, just normal use where things get out of alignment. In each case I?ve submitted them to a repair facility and they?ve been returned as ?not repairable?. In my most recent case, there were ?too many corroded fasteners? in my 20 year old Swift Audubon 8.5x44 ?Waterproof? pair. Is it simply that the cost of repair labor is so great and the cost of optics so low? > > Do most birders have a drawer full of unserviceable binoculars? > > Tom Benedict > Seahurst, WA > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmailman11.u.washington.edu%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Ftweeters&data=05%7C01%7C%7C848b1ccd39c84379448a08da3cd95844%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637889201429574201%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=PahDO%2F%2BIGz24ZUZI08CkfntB1OM8WvQP%2B%2FmRZg2mIXs%3D&reserved=0 > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rogermoyer1 at hotmail.com Mon May 23 15:09:53 2022 From: rogermoyer1 at hotmail.com (Roger Moyer) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Optics Repairs... In-Reply-To: <419d6300-0b8a-4fda-b322-91c5642d8d3c@Spark> References: <16C284BD-92D5-4C78-8D51-70B9AC82060E@comcast.net> <419d6300-0b8a-4fda-b322-91c5642d8d3c@Spark> Message-ID: Leupold has the same guarantee. I just had a pair of 8x42's that the optic lenses had fogged up. The were unsuable. I sent them in for repair. Evidently they were unrepairable. They sent me a new pair. They new pair was actually nicer than the pair I sent in. Roger Moyer ________________________________ From: Tweeters on behalf of Nagi Aboulenein Sent: Monday, May 23, 2022 2:53 PM To: Tom Benedict ; Tweeters ; DONNA POOLE Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Optics Repairs... I will second Donna?s recommendation of Vortex. Their warranty is outstanding and no-questions-asked. If they can repair it, they will. And if not, they?ll replace with a comparable or better current model. They've consistently been a pleasure to deal with. Nagi On May 23, 2022, 14:51 -0700, DONNA POOLE , wrote: I would look for a brand that has a lifetime warranty. I just sent the first good pair of binoculars I bought years ago back to Vortex with a pre-paid shipping label paid for by Vortex. I had no receipt or proof of purchase. They will either repair or replace them within 3 weeks. Donna L Poole ________________________________ From: Tweeters on behalf of Tom Benedict Sent: Monday, May 23, 2022 9:28 AM To: Tweeters Subject: [Tweeters] Optics Repairs... I?ve had a couple of pair of binoculars ?die? over the past few decades. It?s a shame to throw them out or put them in a drawer. It seems like it should be possible to repair them. I?m not talking about catastrophic damage, just normal use where things get out of alignment. In each case I?ve submitted them to a repair facility and they?ve been returned as ?not repairable?. In my most recent case, there were ?too many corroded fasteners? in my 20 year old Swift Audubon 8.5x44 ?Waterproof? pair. Is it simply that the cost of repair labor is so great and the cost of optics so low? Do most birders have a drawer full of unserviceable binoculars? Tom Benedict Seahurst, WA _______________________________________________ Tweeters mailing list Tweeters@u.washington.edu https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmailman11.u.washington.edu%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Ftweeters&data=05%7C01%7C%7C848b1ccd39c84379448a08da3cd95844%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637889201429574201%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=PahDO%2F%2BIGz24ZUZI08CkfntB1OM8WvQP%2B%2FmRZg2mIXs%3D&reserved=0 _______________________________________________ Tweeters mailing list Tweeters@u.washington.edu http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bbrug15 at gmail.com Mon May 23 16:58:36 2022 From: bbrug15 at gmail.com (Barry Brugman) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Mystery Gull - Possible Iceland Gull? Message-ID: Hello, Today I saw a gull at the 10th St Boat Launch parking lot in Everett. I would like some help with identifying it. The only thing I could come with was a first summer Iceland Gull, but that seems unlikely according to eBird history in May. Here is a link to a couple of pictures. https://www.barry15.com/2022_Birding_Reports/Special.html I'd appreciate any opinions or suggestions. Barry Brugman Kirkland, WA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From larrydmarsh at gmail.com Mon May 23 17:01:42 2022 From: larrydmarsh at gmail.com (Larry Marsh) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Optics Repairs... In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <17828CA1-05FA-4357-A9C5-BD430A485ABC@gmail.com> Vortex has been fabulous to work with. When I dropped mine they repaired them w/o charge to me even for shipping! Larry Sent from my iPhone > On May 23, 2022, at 2:51 PM, DONNA POOLE wrote: > > ? > I would look for a brand that has a lifetime warranty. I just sent the first good pair of binoculars I bought years ago back to Vortex with a pre-paid shipping label paid for by Vortex. I had no receipt or proof of purchase. They will either repair or replace them within 3 weeks. > > Donna L Poole > From: Tweeters on behalf of Tom Benedict > Sent: Monday, May 23, 2022 9:28 AM > To: Tweeters > Subject: [Tweeters] Optics Repairs... > > I?ve had a couple of pair of binoculars ?die? over the past few decades. It?s a shame to throw them out or put them in a drawer. It seems like it should be possible to repair them. > > I?m not talking about catastrophic damage, just normal use where things get out of alignment. In each case I?ve submitted them to a repair facility and they?ve been returned as ?not repairable?. In my most recent case, there were ?too many corroded fasteners? in my 20 year old Swift Audubon 8.5x44 ?Waterproof? pair. Is it simply that the cost of repair labor is so great and the cost of optics so low? > > Do most birders have a drawer full of unserviceable binoculars? > > Tom Benedict > Seahurst, WA > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmailman11.u.washington.edu%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Ftweeters&data=05%7C01%7C%7C848b1ccd39c84379448a08da3cd95844%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637889201429574201%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=PahDO%2F%2BIGz24ZUZI08CkfntB1OM8WvQP%2B%2FmRZg2mIXs%3D&reserved=0 > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From 1northraven at gmail.com Mon May 23 17:28:05 2022 From: 1northraven at gmail.com (J Christian Kessler) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Optics Repairs... In-Reply-To: <16C284BD-92D5-4C78-8D51-70B9AC82060E@comcast.net> References: <16C284BD-92D5-4C78-8D51-70B9AC82060E@comcast.net> Message-ID: Like Tom, I too have a pair of broken (prism loose) binoculars that I cannot seem to get repaired. Neither I nor Tom need advice to buy new binoculars from companies with lifetime guarantees (my newerSwarovskis have been rebuilt under just such a guarantee). the question is how to salvage older once good quality (in their day) binoculars rather than just trashing them. having failed in my own attempts to find someone to repair a 35 year old pair, I'd be most interested to hear ideas others may have on how to salvage them. Chris Kessler Seattle On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 9:28 AM Tom Benedict wrote: > I?ve had a couple of pair of binoculars ?die? over the past few decades. > It?s a shame to throw them out or put them in a drawer. It seems like it > should be possible to repair them. > > I?m not talking about catastrophic damage, just normal use where things > get out of alignment. In each case I?ve submitted them to a repair facility > and they?ve been returned as ?not repairable?. In my most recent case, > there were ?too many corroded fasteners? in my 20 year old Swift Audubon > 8.5x44 ?Waterproof? pair. Is it simply that the cost of repair labor is so > great and the cost of optics so low? > > Do most birders have a drawer full of unserviceable binoculars? > > Tom Benedict > Seahurst, WA > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > -- "moderation in everything, including moderation" Rustin Thompson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From travelgirl.fics at gmail.com Mon May 23 19:00:26 2022 From: travelgirl.fics at gmail.com (ck park) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Optics Repairs... In-Reply-To: References: <16C284BD-92D5-4C78-8D51-70B9AC82060E@comcast.net> Message-ID: salvaging optics might be an interesting project for highschool or college physics, astronomy, or math classes.... the math behind understanding those lenses could be an amazingly teachable moment, and having quality lenses to play with would be a bonus... 00 caren ParkGallery.org george davis creek, north fork On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 5:29 PM J Christian Kessler <1northraven@gmail.com> wrote: > Like Tom, I too have a pair of broken (prism loose) binoculars that I > cannot seem to get repaired. Neither I nor Tom need advice to buy new > binoculars from companies with lifetime guarantees (my newerSwarovskis have > been rebuilt under just such a guarantee). the question is how to salvage > older once good quality (in their day) binoculars rather than just trashing > them. having failed in my own attempts to find someone to repair a 35 year > old pair, I'd be most interested to hear ideas others may have on how to > salvage them. > > Chris Kessler > Seattle > > On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 9:28 AM Tom Benedict > wrote: > >> I?ve had a couple of pair of binoculars ?die? over the past few decades. >> It?s a shame to throw them out or put them in a drawer. It seems like it >> should be possible to repair them. >> >> I?m not talking about catastrophic damage, just normal use where things >> get out of alignment. In each case I?ve submitted them to a repair facility >> and they?ve been returned as ?not repairable?. In my most recent case, >> there were ?too many corroded fasteners? in my 20 year old Swift Audubon >> 8.5x44 ?Waterproof? pair. Is it simply that the cost of repair labor is so >> great and the cost of optics so low? >> >> Do most birders have a drawer full of unserviceable binoculars? >> >> Tom Benedict >> Seahurst, WA >> _______________________________________________ >> Tweeters mailing list >> Tweeters@u.washington.edu >> http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters >> > > > -- > "moderation in everything, including moderation" > Rustin Thompson > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Here is a link to a couple of pictures. > > https://www.barry15.com/2022_Birding_Reports/Special.html > > I'd appreciate any opinions or suggestions. > > Barry Brugman > Kirkland, WA > > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From qblater at yahoo.com Mon May 23 21:53:46 2022 From: qblater at yahoo.com (Qblater) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Binoculars References: <1BA95CF5-C0C6-4816-8A41-648926528687.ref@yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1BA95CF5-C0C6-4816-8A41-648926528687@yahoo.com> ?Land see and sky did a nice repair and realignment on an old pair of Bausch and Lomb elites Email them and tell them the problem before you ship ? Land Sea & Sky 1925A Richmond Ave Houston Tx 77098 support@landseaskyco.com 713-529-3551? 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Sent from my iPhone > On May 23, 2022, at 9:57 PM, Doug Santoni wrote: > From garybletsch at yahoo.com Tue May 24 11:36:55 2022 From: garybletsch at yahoo.com (Gary Bletsch) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Costa's Hummingbird RFI References: <899878187.1025107.1653417415538.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <899878187.1025107.1653417415538@mail.yahoo.com> Dear Tweeters, The Costa's Hummingbird in Ellensburg seems like a reliable bird, so I am thinking of chasing it. I'd love to hear any suggestions! Yours truly, Gary Bletsch -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vickibiltz at gmail.com Tue May 24 12:44:15 2022 From: vickibiltz at gmail.com (Vicki) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Event Grosbeaks eating me out of house and home Message-ID: For the ones who have asked me about coming out, I?d say the sooner the better. They?re usually here close to or over 3 weeks, but if I accidentally forget to fill the feeders most will leave. I?ll continue to post, but do contact me if you want my address. I just ask no visitors before 8:30 It is crazy here! I had to shut my bedroom windows because they were so noisy this morning and I had a headache. Right now only me black headed grosbeaks are on the feeders, but they?re almost empty again. I?ve gone through 40 pounds of sunflower in 5 days. I can?t really count anymore because the trees are thick with them, and I cannot see unless they fly. What noisy little pigs they are. I might go broke before they leave! Haven?t checked on the House Wren, because it?s a long walk and I still have the headache. Will try that later Vicki Biltz Connells Prairie Rd Buckley WA, 98321 -- vickibiltz@gmail.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/saw-whets_new/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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He said he is parking there to keep people out as the land is owned by the railroad and they don't want people going down there.I left and went over the bridge, but the other side has warehouses/business parks and didn't seem like an obvious birding spot. I went back over the bridge and noticed on the east side of the bridge there is a fairly large pond down there. I went and parked and birded the Fife--Sha Dadx Wetland hotspot, which I had been to once before, and I walked all the way over to the pond by the bridge from there. No blue winged teals in there that I could see, just one female mallard with a chick, assuming this was even the same pond where the teals were reported.?Unless I am missing something or birders are walking down that gravel road when guys aren't parking there policing it, then I can't see any place there to bird. You can e-mail me directly if you have any helpful info about this spot. 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Thin gloves will keep your hands warm without impairing your ability to operate your binocular focus knob and/or camera controls. Packing several pairs of gloves will allow you to swap them out if they become wet. After your trip, assess your outfitting choices and write yourself a reminder of what to reconsider before your next pelagic outing. Layers can always be shed if you are too hot, but you can?t add additional layers you haven?t brought if you?re too cold. Keeping dry is as important as properly dressing to stay warm. As we are traveling directly west 30 miles to the continental shelf, we are usually motoring into a Northwesterly wind. This wind generates waves which break on our starboard side resulting in seaspray. On days with significant seaspray, positioning yourself on the port side of the boat for the trip out can result in a dryer ride. Having a soft cloth in your pocket to dry your binoculars and camera will come in handy should they become wet. If the trip out was a bit rough and wet, the return, with the wind at our backs, will be smoother. While disappointing, take solace in knowing if your trip was canceled the predicted weather would have been too unpleasant for adequate, nevermind enjoyable, bird viewing. On to the birds?. Leaving the harbor the first migrant of note was Common Tern (500), with large flocks forging at our departure as well as our return. Our next migrant was our only ?skua? of the day, Parasitic Jaeger (2), which gave us a quick flyby early on, then later at the chum stop a lackadaisical example of its piratic ways. Moving westward we encountered other migrants including our pelagic shorebirds Red-necked (12) and Red Phalaropes (44). Red Phalarope in breeding plumage is stunning and photos from this trip are likely to be included in our ?Best Of? video compilation at the end of the year. Though we may not think of them in these terms, most of the tubenoses we encounter on our trips are migrants. Black-footed Albatross (27) breeds in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and Islands off Japan, Sooty Shearwater (110) has its largest breeding colonies in New Zealand, and Pink-footed Shearwater (17) breeds off the coast of Chile. Though scattered breeding sites are found throughout the northern hemisphere, the Northern Fulmars (4) we see off Washington are likely breeders from arctic Alaska and Canada. Of the tubenoses we saw on this trip, only Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel (210), who dazzled us with its beauty at our chum stop, breeds in Washington on islands off our coast. Our chum stop was, as many are, an example of how the wind and sea will carry the scent of fish oil away from the Monte Carlo, seemingly alone in a vast ocean, to distant tubenoses ready to forage out in search of a meal. Storm-Petrels came in at first, their numbers slowly building as time went on. Eventually they were joined by several albatrosses and a couple fulmars who stayed and sampled the suet we offered them. Other migrants observed during the chum stop included the brilliant pelagic Sabine?s Gull (14) as well as the mega-migrant Arctic Tern (12) who logs a whopping 50,000+ miles per year going back and forth between its pole-spanning breeding and wintering grounds. As a group, alcids couldn?t be more different in structure from the long distance migrant Arctic Tern. The tern, built for distance and speed, is lightweight with long wings capable of buoyant, almost effortless flight. Alcids by contrast, don?t spend a great deal of time in flight as their body structure requires constant flapping. Though some species travel far from their breeding grounds, they do so on the water rather than through air. This movement is not typically thought of as true migration but more of a ?post-breeding dispersal?. Our alcid list included Common Murre (28), Pigeon Guillemot (6), Ancient Murrelet (5), Rhinoceros Auklet (145), Cassin?s Auklet (167) and Tufted Puffin (3). Of this list, all are known to breed in Washington except Ancient Murrelet who travels to the Aleutian Islands, as well as British Columbia and Asia to breed. Migration remained the theme as we added a few wayward land birds to our list including a couple Wilson?s Warblers, an Olive-sided Flycatcher, a Western Wood-Pewee, and a couple of unidentified souls, all likely taking their last flights. Humpback Whales (7) are also migrants and well known to travel from their tropical breeding grounds to high northern latitudes to feed. We saw five whales surfacing and fluking close to the boat and we lingered to watch them for a while. Later a few of us on the bow witnessed a jaw dropping double breach at the horizon. Though way too far away to feel the splash, the sheer volume of water that explodes skyward from this behavior is simply incredible. This migration themed voyage was Captained by Phil Anderson. Leaders were Bill Tweit, Scott Mills, and me. 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That was a lot of money for us. They would be in my China hutch right now, if I had realized the attachment there. Vicki Biltz vickibiltz@gmail.com On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 12:52 AM Karen McMains wrote: > 1st better binos I could afford, many years old older than I can remember, > Swift 10x42 ultralite, > focusing loose. > Delegated to looking out the back window on the greenbelt, but mostly > unused since so difficult to focus. > Can't bring myself to part with them. > Suggestions? > > Namaste, > Karen > > > >> >> End of Tweeters Digest, Vol 213, Issue 24 >> ***************************************** >> > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > -- vickibiltz@gmail.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/saw-whets_new/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Our guide told us not to report this individual on eBird because Saudi Arabian falconers read the reports and, within days, will arrive and kill it. What a terrible use of an otherwise excellent resource. Rachel Lawson Seattle rwlawson5593@outlook.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kenbrownpls at comcast.net Wed May 25 19:17:28 2022 From: kenbrownpls at comcast.net (Kenneth Brown) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Fwd: eBird Report - Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually NWR, May 25, 2022 In-Reply-To: <01000180fe16da74-45d2fca7-86a8-4ad4-b703-fe656e94884e-000000@email.amazonses.com> References: <01000180fe16da74-45d2fca7-86a8-4ad4-b703-fe656e94884e-000000@email.amazonses.com> Message-ID: <510684644.256759.1653531448341@connect.xfinity.com> Good weather today, overall. Did not bird the orchard early, as we prefer, because gas powered equipment being used there by the WCC crew overwhelmed the senses of both birds and birders. The highlight of the day came early with the observation of two Black-necked Stilts in the flooded fields south of the twin barns. There was an abundance of Western Tanagers and some had a brief look at a female Bullock's Oriole. A complete list follows: > ---------- Original Message ---------- > From: do-not-reply@ebird.org > To: kenbrownpls@comcast.net > Date: 05/25/2022 6:59 PM > Subject: eBird Report - Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually NWR, May 25, 2022 > > > Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually NWR, Thurston, Washington, US > May 25, 2022 7:36 AM - 3:58 PM > Protocol: Traveling > 6.12 mile(s) > 69 species (+1 other taxa) > > Canada Goose 60 > Wood Duck 15 > Blue-winged Teal 4 > Cinnamon Teal 8 > Gadwall 7 > American Wigeon 20 > Mallard 50 > Ring-necked Duck 1 > Bufflehead 1 Single female > Hooded Merganser 18 > Pied-billed Grebe 1 > Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 3 > Mourning Dove 2 > Vaux's Swift 2 > Rufous Hummingbird 3 > Virginia Rail 2 > Sora 2 > Black-necked Stilt 2 2 seen in flooded field adjacent to parking lot. > Wilson's Snipe 1 > Greater Yellowlegs 2 > Ring-billed Gull 40 > California Gull 10 > Glaucous-winged Gull 4 > Western x Glaucous-winged Gull (hybrid) 35 > Caspian Tern 100 > Brandt's Cormorant 4 > Double-crested Cormorant 13 > Great Blue Heron 40 > Turkey Vulture 3 > Cooper's Hawk 1 > Bald Eagle 30 > Belted Kingfisher 1 > Red-breasted Sapsucker 2 > Downy Woodpecker 2 > Northern Flicker 1 > Western Wood-Pewee 10 > Willow Flycatcher 10 > Pacific-slope Flycatcher 3 > Hutton's Vireo 1 > Warbling Vireo 5 > Steller's Jay 2 > American Crow 15 > Black-capped Chickadee 1 > Chestnut-backed Chickadee 1 > Northern Rough-winged Swallow 7 > Purple Martin 2 > Tree Swallow 40 > Violet-green Swallow 12 > Barn Swallow 70 > Cliff Swallow 50 > Brown Creeper 4 > Marsh Wren 20 > Bewick's Wren 6 > European Starling 50 > Swainson's Thrush 25 Several observed, most heard over the length of the walk > American Robin 30 > Cedar Waxwing 45 > Evening Grosbeak 1 > Purple Finch 5 > Pine Siskin 20 > American Goldfinch 12 > Song Sparrow 15 > Bullock's Oriole 1 > Red-winged Blackbird 45 > Brown-headed Cowbird 15 > Common Yellowthroat 20 > Yellow Warbler 22 > Wilson's Warbler 5 > Western Tanager 25 > Black-headed Grosbeak 10 > > View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S111285640 > > This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (https://ebird.org/home) From info at shelflifestories.com Wed May 25 19:30:39 2022 From: info at shelflifestories.com (Shelf Life Community Story Project) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Central District birding excitement Message-ID: <843ED2B5-859C-406F-AA97-A9392A4ECE53@shelflifestories.com> We don?t get a lot of birds in the CD these days. Development has really cut down on tree canopy, and there are leaf blowers everywhere, every day. But this week has really been hoppin? compared to usual. Lots of Western Tanagers, Wilson?s Warblers, and Yellow Warblers. One solitary Western Wood Pewee. Some ridiculously cute and vulnerable Stellar's Jay fledglings. Seems like the ?butter butts? have moved on. Jill Near Spruce Street Mini Park in Seattle?s Central District From dave.slager at gmail.com Wed May 25 19:55:01 2022 From: dave.slager at gmail.com (Dave Slager) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Bad use of eBird In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Rachel, Depending on the species and location, this fortunately might not be true anymore. https://ebird.org/news/sensitive-species-in-ebird Dave On Wed, May 25, 2022, 19:15 Rachel Lawson wrote: > I just got back from a tour during which we saw a single bustard of a > species that is vulnerable to extinction. Our guide told us not to report > this individual on eBird because Saudi Arabian falconers read the reports > and, within days, will arrive and kill it. What a terrible use of an > otherwise excellent resource. > > Rachel Lawson > Seattle > rwlawson5593@outlook.com > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rwlawson5593 at outlook.com Wed May 25 21:39:57 2022 From: rwlawson5593 at outlook.com (Rachel Lawson) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Bad use of eBird In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thanks, Dave, I am glad to hear that eBird is working on this. The system is not working for this bustard though. We just looked at eBird reports from the place we saw the bustard, and there is a report from the very same spot for the following day. It will all depend on how eBird defines a "sensitive species". Though these bustards are now very scarce and under a lot of pressure, eBird is still making the reports public. Unfortunately, more and more species are becoming vulnerable. How can eBird deal with this and still be a resource for birders? Rachel Lawson Seattle rwlawson5593@outlook.com ________________________________ From: Dave Slager Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2022 7:55 PM To: Rachel Lawson Cc: Tweeters Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Bad use of eBird Rachel, Depending on the species and location, this fortunately might not be true anymore. https://ebird.org/news/sensitive-species-in-ebird Dave On Wed, May 25, 2022, 19:15 Rachel Lawson > wrote: I just got back from a tour during which we saw a single bustard of a species that is vulnerable to extinction. Our guide told us not to report this individual on eBird because Saudi Arabian falconers read the reports and, within days, will arrive and kill it. What a terrible use of an otherwise excellent resource. Rachel Lawson Seattle rwlawson5593@outlook.com _______________________________________________ Tweeters mailing list Tweeters@u.washington.edu http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From stevechampton at gmail.com Wed May 25 21:45:25 2022 From: stevechampton at gmail.com (Steve Hampton) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Bad use of eBird In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: A little bit more on this-- sensitive species are hidden in eBird in that the data is "blurred" and the exact location is not revealed. In North America, you'll see this is for Gunnison Sage-Grouse, Lesser Prairie-Chicken, Northern Hawk-Owl, Great Gray Owl, and Gyrfalcon (and maybe a few others). You can report them, but others cannot zoom in and see the details. eBird's list of "sensitive species" is here: https://support.ebird.org/en/support/solutions/articles/48000803210-sensitive-species-in-ebird#Sensitive-Species-List eBird is continually updating and revising this list. On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 7:55 PM Dave Slager wrote: > Rachel, > > Depending on the species and location, this fortunately might not be true > anymore. > > https://ebird.org/news/sensitive-species-in-ebird > > Dave > > On Wed, May 25, 2022, 19:15 Rachel Lawson > wrote: > >> I just got back from a tour during which we saw a single bustard of a >> species that is vulnerable to extinction. Our guide told us not to report >> this individual on eBird because Saudi Arabian falconers read the reports >> and, within days, will arrive and kill it. What a terrible use of an >> otherwise excellent resource. >> >> Rachel Lawson >> Seattle >> rwlawson5593@outlook.com >> _______________________________________________ >> Tweeters mailing list >> Tweeters@u.washington.edu >> http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters >> > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > -- ?Steve Hampton? Port Townsend, WA (qat?y) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rwlawson5593 at outlook.com Wed May 25 22:17:55 2022 From: rwlawson5593 at outlook.com (Rachel Lawson) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Bad use of eBird In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I don't want to be too negative, because ANY effort by eBird to protect sensitive species is a very good thing. Blurring the location is a good idea, but in this case, it is probably not enough. We are not talking about a couple of birders in a 4X4 trying to find the bird from ground level. Once a falconer gets to the general area mentioned in the report, a falcon will find the bustard with little trouble. It's a bit of a special case. Besides, this species is not on eBird's sensitive list and the location from this report is not blurred. Someone suggested that I bring up the problem of this species directly with eBird. I might try that, but I don't know how much good it will do when I have no real data to show, only what my guide said. Rachel rwlawson5593@outlook.com ________________________________ From: Tweeters on behalf of Steve Hampton Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2022 9:45 PM To: Tweeters Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Bad use of eBird A little bit more on this-- sensitive species are hidden in eBird in that the data is "blurred" and the exact location is not revealed. In North America, you'll see this is for Gunnison Sage-Grouse, Lesser Prairie-Chicken, Northern Hawk-Owl, Great Gray Owl, and Gyrfalcon (and maybe a few others). You can report them, but others cannot zoom in and see the details. eBird's list of "sensitive species" is here: https://support.ebird.org/en/support/solutions/articles/48000803210-sensitive-species-in-ebird#Sensitive-Species-List eBird is continually updating and revising this list. On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 7:55 PM Dave Slager > wrote: Rachel, Depending on the species and location, this fortunately might not be true anymore. https://ebird.org/news/sensitive-species-in-ebird Dave On Wed, May 25, 2022, 19:15 Rachel Lawson > wrote: I just got back from a tour during which we saw a single bustard of a species that is vulnerable to extinction. Our guide told us not to report this individual on eBird because Saudi Arabian falconers read the reports and, within days, will arrive and kill it. What a terrible use of an otherwise excellent resource. Rachel Lawson Seattle rwlawson5593@outlook.com _______________________________________________ Tweeters mailing list Tweeters@u.washington.edu http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters _______________________________________________ Tweeters mailing list Tweeters@u.washington.edu http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters -- ?Steve Hampton? Port Townsend, WA (qat?y) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From marvbreece at q.com Thu May 26 05:52:26 2022 From: marvbreece at q.com (Marv Breece) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Fir Island birding 5.25.22 Message-ID: <883424941.128275082.1653569546903.JavaMail.zimbra@q.com> Yesterday (5.25.22) the AMERICAN AVOCET, 5 RED KNOTS and the RUDDY TURNSTONE continued at Hayton Reserve on Fir Island (Skagit County). There were also small numbers of LEAST and WESTERN SANDPIPERS. In the afternoon, an immature PEREGRINE FALCON flushed the lot of them, leaving only the Avocet and a Black-bellied Plover as far as I could tell. The Avocet barely missed being taken by the falcon. I drove the short distance to Jensen Access and after a bit of looking I saw 16 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS and the RUDDY TURNSTONE in the vegetation. They were joined by 6 WHIMBRELS. After about an hour, with the aforementioned birds still at Jensen, I returned to Hayton. The Avocet remained, and beside it were the 5 RED KNOTS, having returned from wherever they had been. Other birds included singing SWAINSON THRUSH, singing WILLOW FLYCATCHER, 7 BLUE-WINGED TEAL, a LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER and a SPOTTED SANDPIPER at the Game Range (Wylie Slough). In Stanwood, north of the park at the north edge of town were 2 TRUMPETER SWANS. 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Vicki Biltz Call or text Cell 253-241-6010 No earlier than 6:30 Except for the birders who have extremely long drives Vicki Biltz Connells Prairie Road Buckley, WA 98321 -- vickibiltz@gmail.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/saw-whets_new/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From stevechampton at gmail.com Thu May 26 06:42:58 2022 From: stevechampton at gmail.com (Steve Hampton) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] massive migration last night in western Washington Message-ID: FYI, according to BirdCast, last night was the biggest or 2nd biggest (depending on county) night of the year for spring migration so far, many times above average. Today would be a good morning to bird! good birding, -- Steve Hampton Port Townsend, WA (qat?y) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jdanzenbaker at gmail.com Thu May 26 10:10:54 2022 From: jdanzenbaker at gmail.com (Jim Danzenbaker) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Bad use of eBird In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi All, Interesting conversation and I appreciate the discussion. Per current ebird protocol for endangered species being reported on ebird: ======================================================================== *How are Sensitive Species defined?* eBird consults with our local partners worldwide in order to develop our list of Sensitive Species . Sensitive Species in eBird conform to these guidelines: - Sensitive Species are formally recommended by a partner or published source, and rationale for the listing is stored at eBird. - Sensitive Species in eBird are those for which demonstrable harm could occur from public display of site-level records, including (but not limited to): 1) targeted capture for the cage bird trade; 2) targeted hunting; 3) targeted disturbance of nests, roosts, or individual birds from birdwatchers or photographers. Species that are rare but are not under pressure from targeted human exploitation or disturbance generally are not considered Sensitive. - In many, but not all, cases, a Sensitive Species has formal listing as an Endangered or Threatened species either on a local priority list or by the IUCN (http://www.iucnredlist.org/). - Sensitive Species are implemented primarily at the global scale, but regional and seasonal treatments are applied in some cases. ======================================================================== Given this information, it appears that local knowledge is what will add a locally (or globally) endangered species to the list of ebird sensitive species in lieu of a published paper or listing by the IUCN. Rachel, sounds like your guide needs to notify eBird administrators (or local ebird reviewers?) to get the species added to the list. I was on an international birding trip in pre-p January of 2020 and we recorded a species that, unbeknownst to me, was an endangered species. When I returned home, I ebirded the entire trip. Another birder who was going to visit the same country asked me if I had seen the species and I said yes and forwarded the ebird report to him. He told me the species wasn't on it which made me realize that the species was e-bird sensitive and only I could see it (I looked at my ebird report and it stated "sensitive" after the listed species). The location where I ebirded wasnt blurred though so anybody could see the location. Keep your eyes and ears skyward! Jim Battle Ground, WA - On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 9:40 PM Rachel Lawson wrote: > Thanks, Dave, I am glad to hear that eBird is working on this. The system > is not working for this bustard though. We just looked at eBird reports > from the place we saw the bustard, and there is a report from the very same > spot for the following day. It will all depend on how eBird defines a > "sensitive species". Though these bustards are now very scarce and under a > lot of pressure, eBird is still making the reports public. Unfortunately, > more and more species are becoming vulnerable. How can eBird deal with > this and still be a resource for birders? > > Rachel Lawson > Seattle > rwlawson5593@outlook.com > ------------------------------ > *From:* Dave Slager > *Sent:* Wednesday, May 25, 2022 7:55 PM > *To:* Rachel Lawson > *Cc:* Tweeters > *Subject:* Re: [Tweeters] Bad use of eBird > > Rachel, > > Depending on the species and location, this fortunately might not be true > anymore. > > https://ebird.org/news/sensitive-species-in-ebird > > > Dave > > On Wed, May 25, 2022, 19:15 Rachel Lawson > wrote: > > I just got back from a tour during which we saw a single bustard of a > species that is vulnerable to extinction. Our guide told us not to report > this individual on eBird because Saudi Arabian falconers read the reports > and, within days, will arrive and kill it. What a terrible use of an > otherwise excellent resource. > > Rachel Lawson > Seattle > rwlawson5593@outlook.com > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > > > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > -- Jim Danzenbaker Battle Ground, WA 360-702-9395 jdanzenbaker@gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Pileated Woodpecker ? probably 2, at the Rowing Club e.. Swainson?s Thrush ? our first looks of the year, following three weeks of heard-only f.. Orange-crowned Warbler ? Matt heard one predawn g.. Wilson?s Warbler ? one heard singing along Snag Row h.. Lazuli Bunting ? males and females about At the Rowing Club, PILEATED WOODPECKER(s) were doing their ?long call? non-stop for minutes. We finally found one of them, quite agitated on a telephone poll, glaring at *something*. Following its gaze, I spotted what I thought at first was a house cat, but then the cat jumped over the fence and I got a great look at a BOBCAT. This would have been just SE of the parking lot under the trees. Despite following the mixed flock of agitated birds, we were unable to get another look a the kitty. While we did get actual looks at some species that are often hard to see (MARSH WREN, SWAINSON?S THRUSH, COMMON YELLOWTHROAT), the big story today was the long list of birds we *didn?t* find today at Marymoor. We had none of the non-breeding species that were so numerous last week (no Black-swift, Short-billed Gull, Caspian Tern, Pacific-slope Flycatcher, Cassin?s Vireo, Northern Rough-winged Swallow, Evening Grosbeak, Golden-crowned Sparrow, Western Meadowlark, Nashville Warbler, MacGillivray?s Warbler, or Yellow-rumped Warbler). These may all be heading to breeding locations away from the park. Statistical misses (those seen 50% or more previous years, but not today) included Rock Pigeon, Vaux?s Swift, Spotted Sandpiper, Green Heron, Belted Kingfisher, Barn Swallow, Cliff Swallow, Bushtit, Golden-crowned Kinglet, and Yellow-rumped Warbler. For the day, just 61 species (down from 77 last week!) 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Whereas a (gun) Hunter can sometimes return with a limit, a single duck captured is considered an excellent day for a Falconer. Most Falconer?s are lucky to catch a few ducks in an entire season. Almost every winged species that is pursued by a trained bird of prey, is faster than that bird of prey in almost every circumstance. Several years ago I spoke to the wildlife officer in charge of the Okanogan region of Washington. At the time I was endeavoring to capture a wild Turkey with a trained great horned owl. Eleven years of pursuing that goal and I have still not found success. He was particularly concerned that I might accidentally capture a Sharp Tailed Grouse. I reassured him that I would have a better chance of winning the lottery without purchasing a ticket, than of capturing a Sharp Tailed Grouse with my owl. Only a handful of Falconer?s with the most highly trained and fittest Falcons, and the best pointing dogs, ever manage to catch a grouse. The Houbara Bustard is a challenging quarry, and thus is treasured by the Falconer?s of Saudi Arabia. A brief Google search will reveal that programs are in place to protect and restore the bustard, and that as in our own country, those programs are funded mainly by hunters and Falconer?s. It is far more likely that a Falconer seeing the report would attempt to observe the bustard than to capture it. Falconry is considered by many to be ?the ultimate birdwatching.? Even the casual birder will experience an occasional thrilling moment when he/ she hears an alarm call, and sees a bird of prey attempt to capture a prey species. As Falconer?s we are privileged to hear those alarm calls, and witness the birds of prey in an intimate association. Many Falconer?s try for years before capturing their first prey with a trained Raptor. Along the way most will learn to identify many birds, spend thousands of hours observing them in their natural settings, and develop a deep love for the birds and the places that they inhabit. Falconers should be considered a resource for the birding community. Remember the recovery of the Peregrine? Falconer?s were responsible. If there are birders on this list that are interested in learning more about Falconry, I would be glad to talk with them. The Washington Falconer?s Association has several annual field meets at which you would be welcome. At these meets you will see many trained raptors pursue game, but let me warn you ahead of time that you will see very few game animals captured! Mark Borden Coupeville, WA. 360-632-7484 Sent from my iPhone From dan.owl.reiff at gmail.com Thu May 26 15:00:01 2022 From: dan.owl.reiff at gmail.com (Dan Reiff) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Looking for someone for help with Eastern WA reptile/ lizard ID Message-ID: Hello Tweeters, I am looking for someone to help me with Eastern WA reptile/ lizard ID. I was filming an owl and could not see what it was eating until I viewed it later on my 27? screen. It appears to be a lizard. If someone could help me with the ID, I would very much appreciate it and would send photos of the owl and lizard. Thank you, Dan Reiff MI Sent from my iPhone From krtrease at gmail.com Thu May 26 15:14:26 2022 From: krtrease at gmail.com (Kenneth Trease) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Yellow-rumped Warbler Intergrades Message-ID: I recently returned from a trip to south-central Oregon. I photographed two different Yellow-rumped Warblers (YRWA) that I thought might be intergrades as they seem to have some characteristics of both Audubon's and Myrtle forms. I would be interested to hear other's opinions-intergrades or just within the normal variation for this species? Here is a link to the photos on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/cavuken/albums/72177720299278430 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From danmcdt at gmail.com Thu May 26 16:11:18 2022 From: danmcdt at gmail.com (Dan McDougall-Treacy) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Yellow-rumped Warbler Intergrades In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Ken, one way I distinguish the Audubon and Myrtle forms is by the shape of the throat patch, an approach that is helpful throughout the year. I think of the Myrtle showing the throat patch flaring out and upward toward the auricular area, and the Audubon throat patch more vertically aimed toward the breast or underwing coverts. Recently I observed a bird with a bright white throat patch (Myrtle-y), and in the shape of the Audubon throat patch. The National Geographic field guide also shows the Myrtle with a whitish supercilium,though that field mark might not always be visible. Your photos show yellow/white in the (Audubon-shaped) throat patch, suggesting an intergrade condition. And one of those birds has a distinct white supercillium Others may know of different distinguishing field marks. Birds of the World goes into a number of subtleties. Dan McDougall-Treacy On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 3:15 PM Kenneth Trease wrote: > I recently returned from a trip to south-central Oregon. I photographed > two different Yellow-rumped Warblers (YRWA) that I thought might be > intergrades as they seem to have some characteristics of both Audubon's and > Myrtle forms. I would be interested to hear other's opinions-intergrades > or just within the normal variation for this species? Here is a link to > the photos on Flickr: > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/cavuken/albums/72177720299278430 > > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From leschwitters at me.com Thu May 26 16:34:14 2022 From: leschwitters at me.com (Larry Schwitters) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] In defense of Falconry and Hunting In-Reply-To: <7008D805-AC43-4E27-B86C-90CE1C844220@gmail.com> References: <7008D805-AC43-4E27-B86C-90CE1C844220@gmail.com> Message-ID: <7DF92FB0-4BBE-4B6A-8459-1C1AB5E0E7F6@me.com> Tweeters and Mark, I found your statement "my licensing fees alone accumulated would fund an entire wildlife conservation program.? difficult to believe. Washington State Fish and Wild at https://wdfw.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2019-01/requirements.pdf says "Permit Fee: At this time there is no permit fee. Legislature may consider a direct fee to the Department at a later date.? Did I look in the wrong place? Larry Schwitters Issaquah > On May 26, 2022, at 1:50 PM, Mark Borden wrote: > > I will preface this statement by reminding you that I am a Falconer. > > Testing requirements, license fees, and facilities construction and maintenance make Falconry a challenging sport. It is a sport to which one must be dedicated 365 days a year. > > As a master Falconer of over 40 years, my licensing fees alone accumulated would fund an entire wildlife conservation program. > > Birders should be aware, that Falconry is the least efficient method of hunting. Whereas a (gun) Hunter can sometimes return with a limit, a single duck captured is considered an excellent day for a Falconer. Most Falconer?s are lucky to catch a few ducks in an entire season. Almost every winged species that is pursued by a trained bird of prey, is faster than that bird of prey in almost every circumstance. > > Several years ago I spoke to the wildlife officer in charge of the Okanogan region of Washington. At the time I was endeavoring to capture a wild Turkey with a trained great horned owl. Eleven years of pursuing that goal and I have still not found success. He was particularly concerned that I might accidentally capture a Sharp Tailed Grouse. I reassured him that I would have a better chance of winning the lottery without purchasing a ticket, than of capturing a Sharp Tailed Grouse with my owl. Only a handful of Falconer?s with the most highly trained and fittest Falcons, and the best pointing dogs, ever manage to catch a grouse. > > The Houbara Bustard is a challenging quarry, and thus is treasured by the Falconer?s of Saudi Arabia. A brief Google search will reveal that programs are in place to protect and restore the bustard, and that as in our own country, those programs are funded mainly by hunters and Falconer?s. It is far more likely that a Falconer seeing the report would attempt to observe the bustard than to capture it. > > Falconry is considered by many to be ?the ultimate birdwatching.? Even the casual birder will experience an occasional thrilling moment when he/ she hears an alarm call, and sees a bird of prey attempt to capture a prey species. As Falconer?s we are privileged to hear those alarm calls, and witness the birds of prey in an intimate association. Many Falconer?s try for years before capturing their first prey with a trained Raptor. Along the way most will learn to identify many birds, spend thousands of hours observing them in their natural settings, and develop a deep love for the birds and the places that they inhabit. > > Falconers should be considered a resource for the birding community. Remember the recovery of the Peregrine? Falconer?s were responsible. > > If there are birders on this list that are interested in learning more about Falconry, I would be glad to talk with them. The Washington Falconer?s Association has several annual field meets at which you would be welcome. At these meets you will see many trained raptors pursue game, but let me warn you ahead of time that you will see very few game animals captured! > > Mark Borden > Coupeville, WA. > 360-632-7484 > > > Sent from my iPhone > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From markbordenmd at gmail.com Thu May 26 16:40:30 2022 From: markbordenmd at gmail.com (Mark Borden) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] In defense of Falconry and Hunting In-Reply-To: <7DF92FB0-4BBE-4B6A-8459-1C1AB5E0E7F6@me.com> References: <7DF92FB0-4BBE-4B6A-8459-1C1AB5E0E7F6@me.com> Message-ID: <746F78BC-C79E-4175-806C-E1D26BB892B4@gmail.com> Hi Larry! During the times I was licensed in California and Washington, my average in hunting license fees Falconry permit fees and other government levies was over $300 per year. Over the course of about 30 years, especially if interest/or investment profits were included this would indeed be large enough to hire several graduate students for research projects. Initially upon moving here to Washington there was a license fee of a bit over $100. Combined with my hunting license fees, for which I paid $196 last week, this was indeed substantial. Several years ago there was a question though. Should Falconer?s of less than 18 years of age be charged the usual fee? The Washington state falconers association went to bat and achieved a lower license fee for Junior Falconer?s. The question then became ?how much should we charge for the regular license?? During the time that this number is being debated, there has been no charge! That has been going on for the last three years, I assume because things move slowly in government. In my 48 years as a Falconer, these last three years are the first time that I have not had to pay an annual fee. I do pay about $1000 per year in food for my Raptors, and the annual hunting license fees of course still apply. Mark Sent from my iPhone > On May 26, 2022, at 4:34 PM, Larry Schwitters wrote: > > ? > Tweeters and Mark, > > I found your statement "my licensing fees alone accumulated would fund an entire wildlife conservation program.? difficult to believe. > > Washington State Fish and Wild at https://wdfw.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2019-01/requirements.pdf says "Permit Fee: At this time there is no permit fee. Legislature may consider a direct fee to the Department at a later date.? > > Did I look in the wrong place? > > Larry Schwitters > Issaquah > > > >> On May 26, 2022, at 1:50 PM, Mark Borden wrote: >> >> I will preface this statement by reminding you that I am a Falconer. >> >> Testing requirements, license fees, and facilities construction and maintenance make Falconry a challenging sport. It is a sport to which one must be dedicated 365 days a year. >> >> As a master Falconer of over 40 years, my licensing fees alone accumulated would fund an entire wildlife conservation program. >> >> Birders should be aware, that Falconry is the least efficient method of hunting. Whereas a (gun) Hunter can sometimes return with a limit, a single duck captured is considered an excellent day for a Falconer. Most Falconer?s are lucky to catch a few ducks in an entire season. Almost every winged species that is pursued by a trained bird of prey, is faster than that bird of prey in almost every circumstance. >> >> Several years ago I spoke to the wildlife officer in charge of the Okanogan region of Washington. At the time I was endeavoring to capture a wild Turkey with a trained great horned owl. Eleven years of pursuing that goal and I have still not found success. He was particularly concerned that I might accidentally capture a Sharp Tailed Grouse. I reassured him that I would have a better chance of winning the lottery without purchasing a ticket, than of capturing a Sharp Tailed Grouse with my owl. Only a handful of Falconer?s with the most highly trained and fittest Falcons, and the best pointing dogs, ever manage to catch a grouse. >> >> The Houbara Bustard is a challenging quarry, and thus is treasured by the Falconer?s of Saudi Arabia. A brief Google search will reveal that programs are in place to protect and restore the bustard, and that as in our own country, those programs are funded mainly by hunters and Falconer?s. It is far more likely that a Falconer seeing the report would attempt to observe the bustard than to capture it. >> >> Falconry is considered by many to be ?the ultimate birdwatching.? Even the casual birder will experience an occasional thrilling moment when he/ she hears an alarm call, and sees a bird of prey attempt to capture a prey species. As Falconer?s we are privileged to hear those alarm calls, and witness the birds of prey in an intimate association. Many Falconer?s try for years before capturing their first prey with a trained Raptor. Along the way most will learn to identify many birds, spend thousands of hours observing them in their natural settings, and develop a deep love for the birds and the places that they inhabit. >> >> Falconers should be considered a resource for the birding community. Remember the recovery of the Peregrine? Falconer?s were responsible. >> >> If there are birders on this list that are interested in learning more about Falconry, I would be glad to talk with them. The Washington Falconer?s Association has several annual field meets at which you would be welcome. At these meets you will see many trained raptors pursue game, but let me warn you ahead of time that you will see very few game animals captured! >> >> Mark Borden >> Coupeville, WA. >> 360-632-7484 >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> _______________________________________________ >> Tweeters mailing list >> Tweeters@u.washington.edu >> http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From markbordenmd at gmail.com Thu May 26 16:55:05 2022 From: markbordenmd at gmail.com (Mark Borden) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] In defense of Falconry and Hunting In-Reply-To: <7DF92FB0-4BBE-4B6A-8459-1C1AB5E0E7F6@me.com> References: <7DF92FB0-4BBE-4B6A-8459-1C1AB5E0E7F6@me.com> Message-ID: <9401D939-A955-4E68-855C-52ADB2CDEBBC@gmail.com> I?m glad you read my posting Larry! Many people feel that the birds of prey are these powerful omnipotent undefeatable creatures. Far fewer realize that there is a very close balance between the aerial predators and their aerial prey. There are very few birds that cannot outfly every Raptor in a fair chase. Those that are slower, such as the English sparrow and coot stay close to cover and can avoid their predators by seeking shelter. As I was telling Rachel, I release my racing homers twice per day here on Whidbey. Depending upon the time of year they deal with many predators, and yet in 17 years I have only lost eight birds to predation. They are faster than any falcon, as are wild rock doves, they are also faster than any species of hawk, and can only be caught by a hawk that has attained an advantage through tactics. Robins, blackbirds, mourning doves and collared Doves (and other similar sized birds) are even faster and dodge better, and can only be caught in very rare circumstances. About 10 years ago a wild mature female Cooper?s Hawk discovered that by coming upon my dove loft at full speed she could catch a racer before it could get up to speed. She was not, however, large enough to carry away a dove, so I saved many by being there and scaring her off. Once she realized I was part of the equation she left and never returned. They are a secretive species and do not like to be exposed. In 17 years I have had hundreds of episodes with peregrines. Many of the flights have been very spectacular but in 17 years I?ve only lost one dove to a peregrine. Mark Sent from my iPhone > On May 26, 2022, at 4:34 PM, Larry Schwitters wrote: > > ? > Tweeters and Mark, > > I found your statement "my licensing fees alone accumulated would fund an entire wildlife conservation program.? difficult to believe. > > Washington State Fish and Wild at https://wdfw.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2019-01/requirements.pdf says "Permit Fee: At this time there is no permit fee. Legislature may consider a direct fee to the Department at a later date.? > > Did I look in the wrong place? > > Larry Schwitters > Issaquah > > > >> On May 26, 2022, at 1:50 PM, Mark Borden wrote: >> >> I will preface this statement by reminding you that I am a Falconer. >> >> Testing requirements, license fees, and facilities construction and maintenance make Falconry a challenging sport. It is a sport to which one must be dedicated 365 days a year. >> >> As a master Falconer of over 40 years, my licensing fees alone accumulated would fund an entire wildlife conservation program. >> >> Birders should be aware, that Falconry is the least efficient method of hunting. Whereas a (gun) Hunter can sometimes return with a limit, a single duck captured is considered an excellent day for a Falconer. Most Falconer?s are lucky to catch a few ducks in an entire season. Almost every winged species that is pursued by a trained bird of prey, is faster than that bird of prey in almost every circumstance. >> >> Several years ago I spoke to the wildlife officer in charge of the Okanogan region of Washington. At the time I was endeavoring to capture a wild Turkey with a trained great horned owl. Eleven years of pursuing that goal and I have still not found success. He was particularly concerned that I might accidentally capture a Sharp Tailed Grouse. I reassured him that I would have a better chance of winning the lottery without purchasing a ticket, than of capturing a Sharp Tailed Grouse with my owl. Only a handful of Falconer?s with the most highly trained and fittest Falcons, and the best pointing dogs, ever manage to catch a grouse. >> >> The Houbara Bustard is a challenging quarry, and thus is treasured by the Falconer?s of Saudi Arabia. A brief Google search will reveal that programs are in place to protect and restore the bustard, and that as in our own country, those programs are funded mainly by hunters and Falconer?s. It is far more likely that a Falconer seeing the report would attempt to observe the bustard than to capture it. >> >> Falconry is considered by many to be ?the ultimate birdwatching.? Even the casual birder will experience an occasional thrilling moment when he/ she hears an alarm call, and sees a bird of prey attempt to capture a prey species. As Falconer?s we are privileged to hear those alarm calls, and witness the birds of prey in an intimate association. Many Falconer?s try for years before capturing their first prey with a trained Raptor. Along the way most will learn to identify many birds, spend thousands of hours observing them in their natural settings, and develop a deep love for the birds and the places that they inhabit. >> >> Falconers should be considered a resource for the birding community. Remember the recovery of the Peregrine? Falconer?s were responsible. >> >> If there are birders on this list that are interested in learning more about Falconry, I would be glad to talk with them. The Washington Falconer?s Association has several annual field meets at which you would be welcome. At these meets you will see many trained raptors pursue game, but let me warn you ahead of time that you will see very few game animals captured! >> >> Mark Borden >> Coupeville, WA. >> 360-632-7484 >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> _______________________________________________ >> Tweeters mailing list >> Tweeters@u.washington.edu >> http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From clareishere at hotmail.com Thu May 26 17:42:38 2022 From: clareishere at hotmail.com (Clare McLean) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Lazuli Bunting (Tom and Carol Stoner) Message-ID: Tweets, I just saw two Lazuli Buntings along the bluff face at Richmond Beach park. They were moving around in an area patchily populated with madrone and western serviceberry, along with some Orange-Crowned Warblers and House Finches. One was definitely female and the other was probably a very pale male. Didn't hear any vocalizations. So exciting and unexpected! Clare McLean clareishere@hotmail.com Mountlake Terrace, WA ? **Please excuse typos or weird formatting due to unruly voice recognition software.** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From garybletsch at yahoo.com Thu May 26 20:44:28 2022 From: garybletsch at yahoo.com (Gary Bletsch) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Saudis and birds References: <2144497164.2046860.1653623068745.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <2144497164.2046860.1653623068745@mail.yahoo.com> Dear Tweeters, This might venture close to the boundaries for Tweeters propriety. What I have to say is about Saudi Arabian hunters and falconers, and has absolutely nothing to do with hunters or falconers anywhere else on Earth. Having lived and birded in Saudi Arabia for four years, 1998-2002, I will say that the level of awareness of wildlife conservation there is utterly abysmal. There might be a few enlightened Saudi hunters or falconers, but I never encountered one. Not a single, solitary one--and I birded there for four years, several times a week, usually in places where there was "hunting," if one could call it that. There is a chance that, over the past twenty years, the Saudis suddenly learned to be wise conservators of wildlife. I would say that the chances border on the absurdly remote. I encountered scores and scores of men with guns. They didn't merit the term "hunter." They shot birds and other wildlife in city parks, in royal conservation areas, and in national parks. I watched one Saudi posing for a photo in front of a big national park sign that said "no hunting" in Arabic. He was holding the head of an ibex that he'd just poached from within the park. Rollers and Hoopoes are most definitely not halal (nor kosher for that matter). Nonetheless, Saudis would shoot them every fall migration, only to chop out one little organ--I think it was a liver or something. They believed it was an aphrodisiac. The remains of those beautiful birds were left in situ.? I watched them shoot a Greater Spotted Eagle. I watched them shoot egrets, herons, ducks, storks, thrushes, cranes, swallows, buntings, greenshanks, plovers, and wheatears. Not a single one of those birds were ever kept. They were just left lying on the ground, or floating on the water. Sometimes the victim would live, but end its days staggering about in the desert.? The only bird I ever saw them take home was the European Turtle Dove. The Saudis along the Red Sea have a particular mania for that species. Most of the above-mentioned birds were just blasted out of the sky, or out of the water, or off a perch, for the sheer thrill of killing, during lulls in the intense Turtle-Dove hunts. Outside of Turtle Dove season, the men would just go out and shoot things, taking home nothing. The number of Turtle Doves shot by these men is small, though, compared to the vast numbers that are captured every year on islets in the southern Red Sea, by means of bird-lime and nets. A significant portion of Europe's entire annual production of young Turtle Doves perish this way. It is no wonder that the species is listed as Vulnerable. I looked and looked for the Houbara when I was there. I showed pictures to Bedouin and inquired, but all I ever got was a sad shake of the head. In the back country, Saudis drive around in Toyota pickup trucks, shooting things. There are very, very few mammals of any size to be encountered. Even the dhab, a type of edible lizard, is very difficult to find, so great is the hunting pressure. Once rifles and pickup trucks were introduced, large birds such as the houbara, as well as big game mammals, were doomed. Falconry is known to continue at a high level in Arabia; there are many fabulously wealthy princes who can afford to keep a staff to tend to the birds. All of the falconers I encountered appeared inept. I never saw one doing much beyond chasing after a falcon that would not come back. Meanwhile, in four years, I saw a grand total of zero wild large falcons in Arabia. Here and there, a kestrel or hobby might appear, but never any of the larger ones. I suspect that they have been trapped out, at least in the regions I visited.? Yours respectfully, Gary? Bletsch -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From krtrease at gmail.com Thu May 26 21:07:14 2022 From: krtrease at gmail.com (Kenneth Trease) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Yellow-rumped Warbler Intergrades In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thanks Dan for the reply. I have looked at several different field guides and many photos and I can see what you mean about the shape of the throat patch. I generally never paid much attention to it except to note the color. I guess if someday the species is split then we will have hybrids rather than intergrades. Ken Trease On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 4:11 PM Dan McDougall-Treacy wrote: > Ken, one way I distinguish the Audubon and Myrtle forms is by the shape of > the throat patch, an approach that is helpful throughout the year. I think > of the Myrtle showing the throat patch flaring out and upward toward the > auricular area, and the Audubon throat patch more vertically aimed toward > the breast or underwing coverts. > Recently I observed a bird with a bright white throat patch (Myrtle-y), > and in the shape of the Audubon throat patch. > > The National Geographic field guide also shows the Myrtle with a whitish > supercilium,though that field mark might not always be visible. > Your photos show yellow/white in the (Audubon-shaped) throat patch, > suggesting an intergrade condition. And one of those birds has a distinct > white supercillium > Others may know of different distinguishing field marks. Birds of the > World goes into a number of subtleties. > > Dan McDougall-Treacy > > On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 3:15 PM Kenneth Trease wrote: > >> I recently returned from a trip to south-central Oregon. I photographed >> two different Yellow-rumped Warblers (YRWA) that I thought might be >> intergrades as they seem to have some characteristics of both Audubon's and >> Myrtle forms. I would be interested to hear other's opinions-intergrades >> or just within the normal variation for this species? Here is a link to >> the photos on Flickr: >> >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/cavuken/albums/72177720299278430 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tweeters mailing list >> Tweeters@u.washington.edu >> http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jimbetz at jimbetz.com Thu May 26 21:23:19 2022 From: jimbetz at jimbetz.com (jimbetz@jimbetz.com) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Bad use of eBird ... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20220526212319.Horde.cap5bTLMdQOgv0w2ZtQ3x7n@webmail.jimbetz.com> Hmmm, I'm sorry to be so blunt - but this list itself tends to emphasize "go find the ___ that is at _____" type of reports. Especially whenever the report is of the nature of "right now" and providing directions to the location. The 'sharing' online -can- be a negative ... whenever it is in the "hurry up and get here right now" category. God forbid it should ever be a truly rare or endangered species. Even if it isn't for a 'special' bird - if it results in a flood of birders going to see it/them ... is that good? 'Life listing' and 'number of species seen at a given location' are not wrong ... but in the instance of the reports of lesser seen ("rare") species it is, at least, questionable. I honestly don't know what the correct solution is. I feed upon the enthusiasm of the members of this list! I love your reports and they guide my future outings. And I hope my reports help you to find good birding - and avoid locations which are unproductive now. However - we see Gyrfalcons here in Skagit County once in a while. I don't know if they are truly rare here or not but if a pair or individual gets "pressure" that isn't a good thing. If I, in my enthusiasm, tell someone about a Gyrfalcon ... am I doing the wrong thing? Even if it only results in the bird flying a few hundred yards to "get away from the people"? - Puzzled Jim in Burlington From jimbetz at jimbetz.com Thu May 26 21:37:56 2022 From: jimbetz at jimbetz.com (jimbetz@jimbetz.com) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Grosbeaks - and more ... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20220526213756.Horde.tiCiWTpFdkqSZUDDeUIFCiR@webmail.jimbetz.com> Hi, Our backyard feeder is attracting more and more Grosbeaks. Both Dark-Headed and Evening varieties. All day long and coming and going repeatedly. And the number that can be seen at one time is growing - I've seen as many as 5 and even 6 (once). Also seeing Cowbirds, Brewer's Blackbirds, Chickadees, White-capped Sparrows, Finches (House, Purple, etc.), Robins, Towhees, Doves, Flickers, Anna's Hummers, and even the odd Lazuli Bunting. And lots of Goldfinches! And, of course, there are Bald Eagles and Red-Tailed Hawks that use the updrafts on the hill to their advantage. The Turkey Vultures, Crows, and Ravens are here every day as well. The ever present Red-Winged Blackbirds are a treasure. I am seeing them in the pond at the foot of the hill where they were not present last year ... perhaps they moved here from Wiley ... *G* Oh yes, I caught a pair of Gadwalls at Wiley Slough Tuesday. The location continues to make me want to cry - it is only now getting any level of 'recovery' from the spraying this Winter. What could they have been thinking? One species I am NOT seeing are the GBHs. The new bird cam shows young in the nest(s) so they are probably "staying closer to home" until the young have fledged. I miss the Trumpeters and Snows and the concentrations of the raptors on the flats ... but the birding is still good here in Skagit County. The ever changing weather is good - it keeps us aware and awake Some wind, sun, clouds, rain ... you name it and we are seeing it ... almost all of them almost every day. - Jim in Burlington From tsbrennan at hotmail.com Thu May 26 22:04:14 2022 From: tsbrennan at hotmail.com (Tim Brennan) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Klickitat County blog updated Message-ID: Howdy! Five new blog posts are up at www.klickitatcountybirding.blogspot.com. For those who prefer to get things in sequence, you can start with the first of those five here, or even back to the first entry of the year. Cheers, Tim Brennan Renton, WA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cmborre1 at gmail.com Fri May 27 08:08:59 2022 From: cmborre1 at gmail.com (Cara Borre) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Birding video of South Florida Message-ID: Hello Tweets: I wanted to share a video from our recent trip to South Florida to add some sunshine to your day. Cheers, Cara Borre Gig Harbor https://youtu.be/kPXrvoIemy0 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vincentlucas5 at gmail.com Fri May 27 12:49:41 2022 From: vincentlucas5 at gmail.com (Vincent Lucas) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Birding Video of South Florida Message-ID: Cara: Thanks for the great video of your birding trip to South Florida. It brought back a flood of great birding memories from when I lived and birded in every one of those locations when I lived there for 15+ years. You did very well in the allotted time you had there, seeing a lot of uncommon birds and especially the exotics, of which there are many. Did you go to these places and find the birds on your own or did you have a guide? There are several good ones in South Florida. One place you didn?t go as far as I can tell, is STA-5 or any of the other storm treatment areas south of Lake Okeechobee. Fantastic birding to be had there. Highly recommended. I lead tours to STA-5 for many years. Anyway, well done. Really enjoyed the video; the music, not so much. Vincent Lucas Port Angeles, WA -- Sent from Gmail Mobile ??? ??? ??? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From baro at pdx.edu Fri May 27 13:02:54 2022 From: baro at pdx.edu (Robert O'Brien) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] In defense of Falconry and Hunting In-Reply-To: <9401D939-A955-4E68-855C-52ADB2CDEBBC@gmail.com> References: <7DF92FB0-4BBE-4B6A-8459-1C1AB5E0E7F6@me.com> <9401D939-A955-4E68-855C-52ADB2CDEBBC@gmail.com> Message-ID: I read Mark's Predator vs. Prey analysis with interest & enjoyment. Here are a couple of observations I have made over about 60 years of birding. 1. Merlin vs. Mourning Dove This was observed in a residential area SE of Portland In the distance I observed two birds approaching fast, about 50 feet in the air, one behind the other. As they got closer the lead bird was seen to be a Mourning Dove, and the pursuer, a Merlin. It appeared neck and neck with the Merlin keeping up but not gaining in all-out flight. When they were adjacent to me the Mourning Dove dove into a large, dense pine, 50 feet up. The Merlin, chagrinned, started madly circling the pine, looking for an opening. After several circles the Mourning Dove, sensing an opportunity, headed on through the sky while the Merlin was on the 'wrong' side of the tree. Not discouraged, the Merlin rounded the tree in pursuit. They both disappeared out of sight, 50 and then 100 feet in the air. (This was on the side of a hill). Clearly an endurance race, outcome unknown. But, like the dog that caught the car, what would the Merlin do if successful? They are approximately the same size. .2. Peregrine vs. Rock Pigeon This was at the (formerly?) famous Nehalem Sewage ponds. As I was birding, a Peregrine casually flew in at about 100 feet, circling the shorebird-laden ponds. Two Caspian Terns immediately went up from the ponds and, screaming, ran it out of the area. 30 minutes later, as I was driving down the country road back to Hwy 101, I observed (as in #1) two birds flying at high speed towards me. As they approached I saw that the lead bird was a Rock Pigeon and the pursuer, the Peregrine. We were on a collision course. It appeared my car would collide with one or both. I started braking, the two birds did not. As I came to a stop the Rock Pigeon flashed in front the windshield, crashing at 50-60 mph into the large, wlld, blackberry hedge that lined the road. The peregrine swerved upward, immediately disappearing. I got out of my now stationary car and photographed (sort of) the pigeon deep inside the blackberries. It wasn't coming out for anything. I've had the pleasure of observing many such interactions over many years, but these seemed most pertinent to the current discussion. Actually, here is another, this time not involving prey (directly), but Peregrine speed. A few years ago, on one of the Princess Cruise 'birding' trips from Vancouver BC to Los Angeles, the seabirds were pretty sparse. This was made up for, to an extent, by a Peregrine Falcon that came aboard 60 miles off Santa Barbara and stayed on the ship for the rest of the day, occasionally flying out of sight and returning with a storm petrel that it consumed on the ship. Easy pickin's I'd say. The falcon would perch on the upper deck, about 50' above the water, and this is where I observed it. This wasn't any old Peregrine. First, it wasn't old, it was a first-year bird, a male, not much larger than a Kestrel. And it wasn't 'any' Peregrine -- it was of the Tundra Race ( Falco peregrinus tundrius ) a race very rarely seen on the NW Coast, but the one occasionally seen around the world, far offshore, miles from land. For a while, I spent more time on this 'land' bird than on the seabirds. And it was worthwhile. Now since I was a kid I've heard of their putative 200mph dive. I know they are fast and powerful but I have always been skeptical of that figure. Especially since it has been so frequently quoted long before there were accurate methods of determination. But, of course this applies to a dive, not level flight, I assume. I'm no longer skeptical of that speed.. After watching it coming, going, & perched for an hour or so, it casually took off, flew upwards to 200-300 feet, turned and dove straight down. It was incredibly fast. I thought it was going to submerge but no; barely above the sea surface it planed out and did it again. 3 or 4 times. I came out of shock and managed to get a photo of it at the bottom of the vertical dive, just as it was turning. See below. (I was 50' above the water myself, on the top deck). I'm sure there were no prey-petrels at the bottom of the stoop, not any other sea bird. Just practicing I guess. Or trying to teach me a lesson, in which it was successful. https://www.freelists.org/archives/obol/12-2019/jpggzZvwkaCmP.jpg Bob OBrien Portland P.S. The easy and permanent availability of this photo(s), sent several years ago to OBOL, and now in the archives, illustrates the advantages of allowing 1 (or more?) photos to be appended to a Tweeters Tweet. On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 4:55 PM Mark Borden wrote: > I?m glad you read my posting Larry! > > Many people feel that the birds of prey are these powerful omnipotent > undefeatable creatures. Far fewer realize that there is a very close > balance between the aerial predators and their aerial prey. > > There are very few birds that cannot outfly every Raptor in a fair chase. > Those that are slower, such as the English sparrow and coot stay close to > cover and can avoid their predators by seeking shelter. > > As I was telling Rachel, I release my racing homers twice per day here on > Whidbey. Depending upon the time of year they deal with many predators, and > yet in 17 years I have only lost eight birds to predation. They are faster > than any falcon, as are wild rock doves, they are also faster than any > species of hawk, and can only be caught by a hawk that has attained an > advantage through tactics. > > Robins, blackbirds, mourning doves and collared Doves (and other similar > sized birds) are even faster and dodge better, and can only be caught in > very rare circumstances. > > About 10 years ago a wild mature female Cooper?s Hawk discovered that by > coming upon my dove loft at full speed she could catch a racer before it > could get up to speed. She was not, however, large enough to carry away a > dove, so I saved many by being there and scaring her off. > > Once she realized I was part of the equation she left and never returned. > They are a secretive species and do not like to be exposed. > > In 17 years I have had hundreds of episodes with peregrines. Many of the > flights have been very spectacular but in 17 years I?ve only lost one dove > to a peregrine. > > Mark > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On May 26, 2022, at 4:34 PM, Larry Schwitters wrote: > > ? > Tweeters and Mark, > > I found your statement "my licensing fees alone accumulated would fund an > entire wildlife conservation program.? difficult to believe. > > Washington State Fish and Wild at > https://wdfw.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2019-01/requirements.pdf says > "Permit Fee: At this time there is no permit fee. Legislature may consider > a direct fee to the Department at a later date.? > > Did I look in the wrong place? > > Larry Schwitters > Issaquah > > > > On May 26, 2022, at 1:50 PM, Mark Borden wrote: > > I will preface this statement by reminding you that I am a Falconer. > > Testing requirements, license fees, and facilities construction and > maintenance make Falconry a challenging sport. It is a sport to which one > must be dedicated 365 days a year. > > As a master Falconer of over 40 years, my licensing fees alone accumulated > would fund an entire wildlife conservation program. > > Birders should be aware, that Falconry is the least efficient method of > hunting. Whereas a (gun) Hunter can sometimes return with a limit, a single > duck captured is considered an excellent day for a Falconer. Most > Falconer?s are lucky to catch a few ducks in an entire season. Almost every > winged species that is pursued by a trained bird of prey, is faster than > that bird of prey in almost every circumstance. > > Several years ago I spoke to the wildlife officer in charge of the > Okanogan region of Washington. At the time I was endeavoring to capture a > wild Turkey with a trained great horned owl. Eleven years of pursuing that > goal and I have still not found success. He was particularly concerned that > I might accidentally capture a Sharp Tailed Grouse. I reassured him that I > would have a better chance of winning the lottery without purchasing a > ticket, than of capturing a Sharp Tailed Grouse with my owl. Only a handful > of Falconer?s with the most highly trained and fittest Falcons, and the > best pointing dogs, ever manage to catch a grouse. > > The Houbara Bustard is a challenging quarry, and thus is treasured by the > Falconer?s of Saudi Arabia. A brief Google search will reveal that > programs are in place to protect and restore the bustard, and that as in > our own country, those programs are funded mainly by hunters and > Falconer?s. It is far more likely that a Falconer seeing the report would > attempt to observe the bustard than to capture it. > > Falconry is considered by many to be ?the ultimate birdwatching.? Even the > casual birder will experience an occasional thrilling moment when he/ she > hears an alarm call, and sees a bird of prey attempt to capture a prey > species. As Falconer?s we are privileged to hear those alarm calls, and > witness the birds of prey in an intimate association. Many Falconer?s try > for years before capturing their first prey with a trained Raptor. Along > the way most will learn to identify many birds, spend thousands of hours > observing them in their natural settings, and develop a deep love for the > birds and the places that they inhabit. > > Falconers should be considered a resource for the birding community. > Remember the recovery of the Peregrine? Falconer?s were responsible. > > If there are birders on this list that are interested in learning more > about Falconry, I would be glad to talk with them. The Washington > Falconer?s Association has several annual field meets at which you would be > welcome. At these meets you will see many trained raptors pursue game, but > let me warn you ahead of time that you will see very few game animals > captured! > > Mark Borden > Coupeville, WA. > 360-632-7484 > > > Sent from my iPhone > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > > > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From baro at pdx.edu Fri May 27 13:07:21 2022 From: baro at pdx.edu (Robert O'Brien) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Birding Video of South Florida In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I'll second Vincent's comments. Both of them. I've lived in north florida for 5 years at varying times and birded in the south on many occasions. Ya'll photographed more species than I've seen the entire time. Jealousy.................. Of course, this was many decades ago when there were far fewer exotics, especially the parrots/parakeets. (Loved the amazing photos but turned the sound volume down.) Bob OBrien Portland On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 12:50 PM Vincent Lucas wrote: > Cara: > > Thanks for the great video of your birding trip to South Florida. It > brought back a flood of great birding memories from when I lived and birded > in every one of those locations when I lived there for 15+ years. You did > very well in the allotted time you had there, seeing a lot of uncommon > birds and especially the exotics, of which there are many. Did you go to > these places and find the birds on your own or did you have a guide? There > are several good ones in South Florida. One place you didn?t go as far as I > can tell, is STA-5 or any of the other storm treatment areas south of Lake > Okeechobee. Fantastic birding to be had there. Highly recommended. I lead > tours to STA-5 for many years. Anyway, well done. Really enjoyed the video; > the music, not so much. > > Vincent Lucas > Port Angeles, WA > -- > Sent from Gmail Mobile ??? ??? ??? > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jgretten at gmail.com Fri May 27 15:19:58 2022 From: jgretten at gmail.com (John Grettenberger) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Bad use of eBird In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From baro at pdx.edu Fri May 27 18:03:24 2022 From: baro at pdx.edu (Robert O'Brien) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Birding Video of South Florida In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Perhaps a little Crass, but to address which of 'Cara's Birds' are countable according to American Birding Association (ABA) rules, I found this great webpage. https://www.aba.org/aba-area-introduced-species/ Lots of parakeets now countable in the Miami area, but not many Parrots. So far. Bob OBrien Portland On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 1:07 PM Robert O'Brien wrote: > I'll second Vincent's comments. Both of them. I've lived in north > florida for 5 years at varying times and birded in the south on many > occasions. > Ya'll photographed more species than I've seen the entire time. > Jealousy.................. Of course, this was many decades ago when there > were far fewer exotics, especially the parrots/parakeets. (Loved the > amazing photos but turned the sound volume down.) Bob OBrien Portland > > On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 12:50 PM Vincent Lucas > wrote: > >> Cara: >> >> Thanks for the great video of your birding trip to South Florida. It >> brought back a flood of great birding memories from when I lived and birded >> in every one of those locations when I lived there for 15+ years. You did >> very well in the allotted time you had there, seeing a lot of uncommon >> birds and especially the exotics, of which there are many. Did you go to >> these places and find the birds on your own or did you have a guide? There >> are several good ones in South Florida. One place you didn?t go as far as I >> can tell, is STA-5 or any of the other storm treatment areas south of Lake >> Okeechobee. Fantastic birding to be had there. Highly recommended. I lead >> tours to STA-5 for many years. Anyway, well done. Really enjoyed the video; >> the music, not so much. >> >> Vincent Lucas >> Port Angeles, WA >> -- >> Sent from Gmail Mobile ??? ??? ??? >> _______________________________________________ >> Tweeters mailing list >> Tweeters@u.washington.edu >> http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pterodroma at aol.com Fri May 27 19:55:32 2022 From: pterodroma at aol.com (Pterodroma) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Birding Video of South Florida References: <1432693120.3175892.1653706532892.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1432693120.3175892.1653706532892@mail.yahoo.com> I'll second and third Vincent Lucas and Robert O'Brien accolades of this delightful video and awesome images.? However, I will diverge with opinion on the choice of music.? I am usually pretty sensitive to music choices for a background soundtrack, often negative, but here I have to say these choices were spot on and very "Florida appropriate" in a most lighthearted sort of way.? Thanks also for including the credits that alerted me that, yes, there really is a rapper who goes by the name "Flo Rida" :) Pterodroma@aol.com?? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jeffgilligan10 at gmail.com Sat May 28 18:29:31 2022 From: jeffgilligan10 at gmail.com (Jeff Gilligan) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Solitay Sandpiper - Pacific County Message-ID: I saw a single Solitary Sandpiper in a recently disked very wet horse pasture, with puddles of varying sizes, at 85th Street and Sandridge Rd., near the town of Long Beach, about an hour ago. 85th goes to the Lone Fir Cemetery. The pasture had a lot of Ringed -billed Gulls, Starlings, and Brewer?s Blackbird. The Solitary Sandpiper was the only shorebird species there. from the very wet Long Beach Peninsula Jeff Gilligan From stephenplatz at pm.me Sat May 28 18:56:27 2022 From: stephenplatz at pm.me (Steve Platz) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Grub harvesting? Message-ID: We witnessed a couple of Chestnut-backed Chickadees today going in and out of what we assumed was a nest, an excavated hole in a snag maybe fifty feet up. I took a couple of shots when there was activity, and noticed that the two appeared to be exiting with grubs, not entering. We are now wondering if these birds were actually harvesting from the cavity, and not depositing in hungry mouths. At home we've been enjoying seeing a parent CBC coming for suet and feeding three fledglings mouthfuls of cake as they shake in the tree nearby in anticipation. Some are learning to come to the suet themselves, but mostly still preferring to be fed! Sent with [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/) secure email. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dan.owl.reiff at gmail.com Sat May 28 21:19:59 2022 From: dan.owl.reiff at gmail.com (Dan Reiff) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Grub harvesting? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5B2ADBF5-EC32-4390-B49F-8848E8AD14DD@gmail.com> Hello Steve, Maybe removing fecal sacs from nest cavity. Dan Reiff MI Sent from my iPhone > On May 28, 2022, at 6:56 PM, Steve Platz wrote: > > ? > We witnessed a couple of Chestnut-backed Chickadees today going in and out of what we assumed was a nest, an excavated hole in a snag maybe fifty feet up. I took a couple of shots when there was activity, and noticed that the two appeared to be exiting with grubs, not entering. We are now wondering if these birds were actually harvesting from the cavity, and not depositing in hungry mouths. At home we've been enjoying seeing a parent CBC coming for suet and feeding three fledglings mouthfuls of cake as they shake in the tree nearby in anticipation. Some are learning to come to the suet themselves, but mostly still preferring to be fed! > > > Sent with Proton Mail secure email. > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From stevechampton at gmail.com Sat May 28 22:15:38 2022 From: stevechampton at gmail.com (Steve Hampton) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Grub harvesting? In-Reply-To: <5B2ADBF5-EC32-4390-B49F-8848E8AD14DD@gmail.com> References: <5B2ADBF5-EC32-4390-B49F-8848E8AD14DD@gmail.com> Message-ID: A recent webinar on gardening for birds related that chickadees need over 6,000 (!) moth caterpillars to fledge a nest of chicks. The moths generally use native trees (e.g. birch, alder, bitter cherry). I don't know much about moth caterpillars, but that could be what they were after. On Sat, May 28, 2022 at 9:20 PM Dan Reiff wrote: > Hello Steve, > Maybe removing fecal sacs from nest cavity. > Dan Reiff > MI > > Sent from my iPhone > > On May 28, 2022, at 6:56 PM, Steve Platz wrote: > > ? > We witnessed a couple of Chestnut-backed Chickadees today going in and out > of what we assumed was a nest, an excavated hole in a snag maybe fifty feet > up. I took a couple of shots when there was activity, and noticed that the > two appeared to be exiting with grubs, not entering. We are now wondering > if these birds were actually harvesting from the cavity, and not depositing > in hungry mouths. At home we've been enjoying seeing a parent CBC coming > for suet and feeding three fledglings mouthfuls of cake as they shake in > the tree nearby in anticipation. Some are learning to come to the suet > themselves, but mostly still preferring to be fed! > > > Sent with Proton Mail secure email. > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > -- ?Steve Hampton? Port Townsend, WA (qat?y) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dan.owl.reiff at gmail.com Sun May 29 02:06:59 2022 From: dan.owl.reiff at gmail.com (Dan Reiff) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Speculation-Re: Grub harvesting? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello both Steves, Without additional observations, it is difficult to know if what you saw was a food item or a fecal sac. Here is some additional information. Hello Steve, If you observe the Chestnut-backed chickadees again, watch to see if they?re taking food into the nest cavity and then bringing the grub like items out of the nest. If so, what looks like a grub is likely a fecal sac produced by a nestling. The parent takes the sac away from the nest and drops it at some distance to keep the nest cavity cleaner and not attract predators. An adult presents food to the young and then waits to see if one presents a fecal sac. If the the adults are not bringing food to the nest just before they leave with the grub like thing, then maybe it is a food item. Now that you mention it, fecal sacs do kind of look like grubs. They look like tiny off- white, partially filled balloons with a darker end. Here is a cut and pasted quote from Cornell?s Birdsoftheworld, Regarding Chestnut-backed chickadees: Nest Sanitation Both sexes remove gelatinous film-covered fecal sacs. Sacs are dropped in flight some distance from nest. Sacs removed up to 1?2 d prior to fledging and then accumulate in nest. Ants commonly clean nests after fledging. I film birds (4K video) and have recorded several species removing the sacs from nests. If you would find it helpful, I can send you a photo of an adult carrying one from a nest. I would be interested in your additional observations. Thank you, Dan Reiff Sent from my iPhone > On May 28, 2022, at 10:15 PM, Steve Hampton wrote: > > ? > A recent webinar on gardening for birds related that chickadees need over 6,000 (!) moth caterpillars to fledge a nest of chicks. The moths generally use native trees (e.g. birch, alder, bitter cherry). I don't know much about moth caterpillars, but that could be what they were after. > > > > On Sat, May 28, 2022 at 9:20 PM Dan Reiff wrote: >> Hello Steve, >> Maybe removing fecal sacs from nest cavity. >> Dan Reiff >> MI >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On May 28, 2022, at 6:56 PM, Steve Platz wrote: >>> >>> ? >>> We witnessed a couple of Chestnut-backed Chickadees today going in and out of what we assumed was a nest, an excavated hole in a snag maybe fifty feet up. I took a couple of shots when there was activity, and noticed that the two appeared to be exiting with grubs, not entering. We are now wondering if these birds were actually harvesting from the cavity, and not depositing in hungry mouths. At home we've been enjoying seeing a parent CBC coming for suet and feeding three fledglings mouthfuls of cake as they shake in the tree nearby in anticipation. 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URL: From vickibiltz at gmail.com Sun May 29 13:40:47 2022 From: vickibiltz at gmail.com (Vicki) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Evening Grosbeaks moving on Message-ID: So, yesterday, there were enough for a few visitors to enjoy. This morning they again cleaned out the feeding stations, and I refilled. But now, very few are calling from the forest. The feeder activity has slowed dramatically. My job is almost done. Now I can begin to relax and resume my normal feeding program. I?ve had a few babies underfoot however. Lots of fledged purple finches and pine siskins seem scattered everywhere I turn. I actually accidentally bumped a fledged purple. They do blend in well on the ground. Fortunately my dogs haven?t noticed them, as squirrels are their prime subject when it comes to chasing. The hummingbirds are going through about 1 1/2 gallons of nectar each week, at least. The Great Horned Owl family seems to have successfully stayed in the trees and no longer are the juveniles on the ground. Two different reliable birders spent a great deal of time in our forest and we?re certain they heard a Pygmy Owl calling. So, I?ll try to see what?s up with that. Happy Birding, Vicki Biltz Buckley, WA 98321 -- vickibiltz@gmail.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/saw-whets_new/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From birdbooker at zipcon.net Sun May 29 13:59:06 2022 From: birdbooker at zipcon.net (Ian Paulsen) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] The Birdbooker Report Message-ID: HI ALL: This month's titles are: 1) Guide to the Birds of China 2) Gulls of Europe, etc 3) Vultures of the World 4) Halcyon Journey (about Belted Kingfishers) 5) For Want of Wings (about the fossil bird Hesperornis) 6) How Birds Live Together 7) Elusive Birds of the Tropical Understory 8) The Role of Birds in WW2 9) Vertebrate Evolution 10) Between Ape and Human https://birdbookerreport.blogspot.com/2022/05/new-titles.html sincerely Ian Paulsen Bainbridge Island, WA, USA Visit my BIRDBOOKER REPORT blog here: https://birdbookerreport.blogspot.com/ From stephenplatz at pm.me Sun May 29 15:12:05 2022 From: stephenplatz at pm.me (Steve Platz) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Grub harvesting? Message-ID: Unfortunately this isn't a place where I observe birds often. I think that since the tree was a dead conifer, it's probably unlikely that it was hosting moth caterpillars, I'll defer to the experts on that. Otherwise, it wasn't apparent that the parents were bringing food into the nest, I only noticed that they were carrying away items. I posted a shot of what we saw here https://ibb.co/kgnncNN. It's not a great photo, but may illuminate to others the nature of the carried materials. Sent with Proton Mail secure email. ------- Original Message ------- On Sunday, May 29th, 2022 at 12:02 PM, wrote: > Send Tweeters mailing list submissions to > tweeters@u.washington.edu > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > tweeters-request@mailman11.u.washington.edu > > You can reach the person managing the list at > tweeters-owner@mailman11.u.washington.edu > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Tweeters digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Solitay Sandpiper - Pacific County (Jeff Gilligan) > 2. Grub harvesting? (Steve Platz) > 3. Re: Grub harvesting? (Dan Reiff) > 4. Re: Grub harvesting? (Steve Hampton) > 5. Speculation-Re: Grub harvesting? (Dan Reiff) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 28 May 2022 18:29:31 -0700 > From: Jeff Gilligan jeffgilligan10@gmail.com > > To: tweeters t tweeters@u.washington.edu, "swalalahos@freelists.org" > > swalalahos@freelists.org > > Subject: [Tweeters] Solitay Sandpiper - Pacific County > Message-ID: F7FF3D1E-D746-4E89-A317-FD22D7E6D99A@gmail.com > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > I saw a single Solitary Sandpiper in a recently disked very wet horse pasture, with puddles of varying sizes, at 85th Street and Sandridge Rd., near the town of Long Beach, about an hour ago. 85th goes to the Lone Fir Cemetery. The pasture had a lot of Ringed -billed Gulls, Starlings, and Brewer?s Blackbird. The Solitary Sandpiper was the only shorebird species there. > > from the very wet Long Beach Peninsula > > Jeff Gilligan > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 29 May 2022 01:56:27 +0000 > From: Steve Platz stephenplatz@pm.me > > To: "tweeters@u.washington.edu" tweeters@u.washington.edu > > Subject: [Tweeters] Grub harvesting? > Message-ID: > AdHDqaMEQFpiZ_VpG5gy4_S1bfPWmgLeMSgyVdYeANHf-UlbPwZS1uNho6DesJFbrMY7eHDp6qlX5GuMQTIo-5Zu1AuY6QTURLCOm505rCU=@pm.me > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > We witnessed a couple of Chestnut-backed Chickadees today going in and out of what we assumed was a nest, an excavated hole in a snag maybe fifty feet up. I took a couple of shots when there was activity, and noticed that the two appeared to be exiting with grubs, not entering. We are now wondering if these birds were actually harvesting from the cavity, and not depositing in hungry mouths. At home we've been enjoying seeing a parent CBC coming for suet and feeding three fledglings mouthfuls of cake as they shake in the tree nearby in anticipation. Some are learning to come to the suet themselves, but mostly still preferring to be fed! > > Sent with Proton Mail secure email. > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/pipermail/tweeters/attachments/20220529/deed4286/attachment-0001.html > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sat, 28 May 2022 21:19:59 -0700 > From: Dan Reiff dan.owl.reiff@gmail.com > > To: Steve Platz stephenplatz@pm.me > > Cc: tweeters@u.washington.edu > Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Grub harvesting? > Message-ID: 5B2ADBF5-EC32-4390-B49F-8848E8AD14DD@gmail.com > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hello Steve, > Maybe removing fecal sacs from nest cavity. > Dan Reiff > MI > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On May 28, 2022, at 6:56 PM, Steve Platz stephenplatz@pm.me wrote: > > > > ? > > We witnessed a couple of Chestnut-backed Chickadees today going in and out of what we assumed was a nest, an excavated hole in a snag maybe fifty feet up. I took a couple of shots when there was activity, and noticed that the two appeared to be exiting with grubs, not entering. We are now wondering if these birds were actually harvesting from the cavity, and not depositing in hungry mouths. At home we've been enjoying seeing a parent CBC coming for suet and feeding three fledglings mouthfuls of cake as they shake in the tree nearby in anticipation. Some are learning to come to the suet themselves, but mostly still preferring to be fed! > > > > > > Sent with Proton Mail secure email. > > _______________________________________________ > > Tweeters mailing list > > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/pipermail/tweeters/attachments/20220528/1a743f51/attachment-0001.html > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Sat, 28 May 2022 22:15:38 -0700 > From: Steve Hampton stevechampton@gmail.com > > To: TWEETERS tweeters tweeters@u.washington.edu > > Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Grub harvesting? > Message-ID: > CAM1wzcPZv3d==CgzrBXqaUX_Og0UAxoU=pds6rfcytP+qE157g@mail.gmail.com > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > A recent webinar on gardening for birds related that chickadees need over > 6,000 (!) moth caterpillars to fledge a nest of chicks. The moths generally > use native trees (e.g. birch, alder, bitter cherry). I don't know much > about moth caterpillars, but that could be what they were after. > > > > On Sat, May 28, 2022 at 9:20 PM Dan Reiff dan.owl.reiff@gmail.com wrote: > > > Hello Steve, > > Maybe removing fecal sacs from nest cavity. > > Dan Reiff > > MI > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > On May 28, 2022, at 6:56 PM, Steve Platz stephenplatz@pm.me wrote: > > > > ? > > We witnessed a couple of Chestnut-backed Chickadees today going in and out > > of what we assumed was a nest, an excavated hole in a snag maybe fifty feet > > up. I took a couple of shots when there was activity, and noticed that the > > two appeared to be exiting with grubs, not entering. We are now wondering > > if these birds were actually harvesting from the cavity, and not depositing > > in hungry mouths. At home we've been enjoying seeing a parent CBC coming > > for suet and feeding three fledglings mouthfuls of cake as they shake in > > the tree nearby in anticipation. Some are learning to come to the suet > > themselves, but mostly still preferring to be fed! > > > > Sent with Proton Mail https://proton.me/ secure email. > > _______________________________________________ > > Tweeters mailing list > > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Tweeters mailing list > > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > > > > -- > ?Steve Hampton? > Port Townsend, WA (qat?y) > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/pipermail/tweeters/attachments/20220528/398f3088/attachment-0001.html > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Sun, 29 May 2022 02:06:59 -0700 > From: Dan Reiff dan.owl.reiff@gmail.com > > To: Steve Hampton stevechampton@gmail.com, Steve Platz > > stephenplatz@pm.me > > Cc: TWEETERS tweeters tweeters@u.washington.edu > > Subject: [Tweeters] Speculation-Re: Grub harvesting? > Message-ID: A467ABAF-34EE-4FAD-8FD7-4408235114F0@gmail.com > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hello both Steves, > Without additional observations, it is difficult to know if what you saw was a food item or a fecal sac. > Here is some additional information. > > Hello Steve, > If you observe the Chestnut-backed chickadees again, watch to see if they?re taking food into the nest cavity and then bringing the grub like items out of the nest. If so, what looks like a grub is likely a fecal sac produced by a nestling. The parent takes the sac away from the nest and drops it at some distance to keep the nest cavity cleaner and not attract predators. > An adult presents food to the young and then waits to see if one presents a fecal sac. > If the the adults are not bringing food to the nest just before they leave with the grub like thing, then maybe it is a food item. > Now that you mention it, fecal sacs do kind of look like grubs. > They look like tiny off- white, partially filled balloons with a darker end. > Here is a cut and pasted quote from Cornell?s Birdsoftheworld, > Regarding Chestnut-backed chickadees: > > Nest Sanitation > Both sexes remove gelatinous film-covered fecal sacs. Sacs are dropped in flight some distance from nest. Sacs removed up to 1?2 d prior to fledging and then accumulate in nest. Ants commonly clean nests after fledging. > > > > I film birds (4K video) and have recorded several species removing the sacs from nests. If you would find it helpful, I can send you a photo of an adult carrying one from a nest. > > I would be interested in your additional observations. > > Thank you, > > Dan Reiff > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On May 28, 2022, at 10:15 PM, Steve Hampton stevechampton@gmail.com wrote: > > > > ? > > A recent webinar on gardening for birds related that chickadees need over 6,000 (!) moth caterpillars to fledge a nest of chicks. The moths generally use native trees (e.g. birch, alder, bitter cherry). I don't know much about moth caterpillars, but that could be what they were after. > > > > On Sat, May 28, 2022 at 9:20 PM Dan Reiff dan.owl.reiff@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > Hello Steve, > > > Maybe removing fecal sacs from nest cavity. > > > Dan Reiff > > > MI > > > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > > > > On May 28, 2022, at 6:56 PM, Steve Platz stephenplatz@pm.me wrote: > > > > > > > > ? > > > > We witnessed a couple of Chestnut-backed Chickadees today going in and out of what we assumed was a nest, an excavated hole in a snag maybe fifty feet up. I took a couple of shots when there was activity, and noticed that the two appeared to be exiting with grubs, not entering. We are now wondering if these birds were actually harvesting from the cavity, and not depositing in hungry mouths. At home we've been enjoying seeing a parent CBC coming for suet and feeding three fledglings mouthfuls of cake as they shake in the tree nearby in anticipation. Some are learning to come to the suet themselves, but mostly still preferring to be fed! > > > > > > > > Sent with Proton Mail secure email. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Tweeters mailing list > > > > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > > > > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Tweeters mailing list > > > > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > > > > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > > > > -- > > ?Steve Hampton? > > Port Townsend, WA (qat?y) > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Tweeters mailing list > > Tweeters@u.washington.edu > > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/pipermail/tweeters/attachments/20220529/8b17f092/attachment-0001.html > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > Tweeters@mailman11.u.washington.edu > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > > ------------------------------ > > End of Tweeters Digest, Vol 213, Issue 29 > ***************************************** From dan.owl.reiff at gmail.com Sun May 29 16:34:44 2022 From: dan.owl.reiff at gmail.com (Dan Reiff) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] =?utf-8?q?Splitsville=3A_World=E2=80=99s_oldest_loon_c?= =?utf-8?q?ouple_breaks_up_after_25_years_at_Michigan=E2=80=99s_Seney_wild?= =?utf-8?q?life_refuge?= Message-ID: https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2022/05/splitsville-worlds-oldest-loon-couple-breaks-up-after-25-years-at-michigans-seney-wildlife-refuge.html Sent from my iPhone From liamhutcheson2020 at gmail.com Sun May 29 21:30:51 2022 From: liamhutcheson2020 at gmail.com (Liam Hutcheson) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Black-Throated Sparrow at Shillapoo Lake On May 29 Message-ID: I had a Black-Throated Sparrow this evening at Shillapoo lake, viewed from here: 45?41'54.0"N 122?44'00.1"W which is right at the gate that leads to the dike trail. 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URL: From itomas at onebox.com Tue May 31 07:03:35 2022 From: itomas at onebox.com (itomas@onebox.com) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Bird ID from sound...and friendly Stellars Jay Message-ID: Sometimes, in early summer mornings, in the Snoqualmie Valley, in a tall cedar tree just outside my house, there is a bird sound I can't identify. I don't think I've ever even seen this bird. The sound is always a rapid, six-note staccato call...reminding me of, "Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs"...always the same six notes. Any ideas? Another question, this time about a particular Stellars Jay...Last September, an unusually friendly Stellars Jay came to visit me where I sat on my deck in Fall City. He came close, unafraid and seemed completely tame, poking his beak inside a box just two feet away from where I sat, pushing a stick through one side of the lid of the box and walking around to the other side to pull it out. Then he proceeded to eat several sunflower seeds right from my hand, before flying away. Are there domesticated Stellar Jays out there? This one only appeared that one time. Tomas Walsh Fall City, WA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dennispaulson at comcast.net Tue May 31 13:58:31 2022 From: dennispaulson at comcast.net (Dennis Paulson) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] looking for Kelly McAllister Message-ID: <8B8FE897-F42A-4991-93AC-D6608F75A7A7@comcast.net> Kelly, if you?re on tweeters, would you drop me a line? Or if someone has his email address, I would appreciate it. Thanks! Dennis Paulson Seattle From jeffgilligan10 at gmail.com Tue May 31 18:28:20 2022 From: jeffgilligan10 at gmail.com (Jeff Gilligan) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] Am. White Pelicans, Greater Yelloowlegs (Pacific County) Message-ID: Willapa Bay - several miles south of Nachotta: 37 Am. White Pelicans 1 Greater Yellowlegs Jeff Gilligan From jimbetz at jimbetz.com Tue May 31 19:49:46 2022 From: jimbetz at jimbetz.com (jimbetz@jimbetz.com) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] The Grosbeaks seem to have ... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20220531194946.Horde.aoAAOt6DUI41b4cCB4mc6kA@webmail.jimbetz.com> ... moved on. It's been over 24 hours without a single one here at our feeder. Still seeing lots of finches, sparrows, a few chickadees, Towees (including a young that day before yesterday was still begging food from Mom and now seems to be on its own. We're getting Flickers (the same ones?) several times a day and the occasional Stellars. It's been a whole day since I've seen a Violet-green Swallow but the vultures, crows, ravens, and eagles are still here (mostly a ways out over the fields below the hill). And, if anything, the number of doves is up - or the same ones are returning to the yard several times a day. Many of you reported seeing Tanagers but there weren't any here. I have seen a few cowbirds and Brewer's Blackbirds. There is a small population of White-Crowned Sparrows that keep coming back. The most numerous are the finches - especially the Purple Finches. A "typical" Late Spring ... but a little bit later than usual. - Jim in Burlington From ronpost4 at gmail.com Tue May 31 20:12:21 2022 From: ronpost4 at gmail.com (ronpost4@gmail.com) Date: Fri Mar 22 11:41:45 2024 Subject: [Tweeters] off topic, and not a goodbye Message-ID: <439D265B-3A56-4550-B0B2-1958E3C3A98F@hxcore.ol> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: