<div dir="ltr">Oh hey! While you and Elaine were at Windy Gap, I was on Granite Mountain. We had upwards of two dozen flickers at the meadows on the shoulder of the mountain. Also, many robins, some pipits. We had some fragments of a song that reminded me of a white throated sparrow. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Oct 1, 2024 at 10:19 AM pan via Tweeters <<a href="mailto:tweeters@u.washington.edu">tweeters@u.washington.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:13px"><div>Tweets,</div><div><br></div><div>Yesterday, Mark and Elaine T. and I birded Windy Gap, on the crest border of King and Kittitas Counties, for about five hours. Clear skies and east-northeast winds seemed likely to bring us birds, but it was slow. We did have robins and Varied Thrushes eating deteriorating huckleberries, a fair number of Golden-crowned Sparrows, and one flurry of activity mid-day, which included several pipits, a half-dozen Mountain Bluebirds, a Townsend's Solitaire, and an immature goshawk harassing a Red-tailed Hawk, our only raptors. <br></div><div><br></div><div>A quick afternoon check of Veazie marsh near Enumclaw featured a few snipe and a dozen or more dowitchers, plus a few white-fronted geese in the field to the west.</div><div><br></div><div>of 30 September, 2024,</div><div><br></div><div>Alan Grenon</div><div>Seattle</div><div>panmail AT mailfence PERIOD com<br></div></div><br><br>-- <br>Sent with <a href="https://mailfence.com" target="_blank">https://mailfence.com</a> <br>Secure and private email<br>_______________________________________________<br>
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