[Tweeters] Vesper Sparrow at Mima Mounds

[Douglas Canning]

On Saturday the 12th I walked the long trail loop around Mima Mounds 
Natural Area near Littlerock, and had the good fortune to finally see 
the Vesper Sparrow here, a part of the disjunct population on the 
Thurston (and Pierce) County prairies.

Birds seen or heard, altogether:

1 Sooty Grouse, 'hooting'
3 Northern Flicker
1 Red-breasted Nuthatch
2 Vesper Sparrow
9 Savannah Sparrow, singing
2 Fox Sparrow
5 White-crowned Sparrow, singing
8 Western Meadowlark, singing

The Sooty Grouse are apparently resident here; the one I heard 
'hooting' was in a tree in the same general area as where I heard (and 
saw) one last April. Surprisingly, there were no raptors to be seen.

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Douglas Canning
Olympia, Washington
dcanning at zhonka.net
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