[Tweeters] Windy Gap migration (King/Kittitas Counties)

[Ven. Dhammadinna via Tweeters]

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.

On Tue, Oct 1, 2024 at 10:19 AM pan via Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
wrote:


> Tweets,

>

> 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.

>

> 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.

>

> of 30 September, 2024,

>

> Alan Grenon

> Seattle

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