[Tweeters] Return of the shrike

[Jeffrey Bryant]

THis morning, harsh calls from a cedar top by my South Seattle house proved to 
be from a NORTHERN SHRIKE, my first of the season.  Yardbird #107 was in full 
Halloween-party mode, bobbing for kinglets in the branches below.  After a few 
unsuccessful dives, he was driven on by three persnickety hummingbirds.
Other fall arrivals to the yard were flyover Evening Grosbeaks (everyday for two 
weeks now,) a Golden-crowned Sparrow tucked into the junco flock, and a pair of 
Townsend's Warblers, perhaps the same pair that overwintered last year.

Jeff Bryant
Seattle
jbryant_68 AT yahoo


      
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