It was a dark and stormy Saturday...as I sat sipping coffee Saturday morning, looking out over my backyard landscaping, I was astonished to see a flock of 60+ sparrows chicken scratching in my mulch - One White-crowned adult male, the remainder were White-Throated Sparrows, as near as I could reckon, with 34 males of the white stripe variety, three males showing tan supercilium, and the remainder (23+) were females...
Birds in the White Pine above them: Yellow-rumped Warblers (too many to count?), Ruby-crowned Kinglets (5) and two Palm Warblers. The two thin notes that start the White-throats' song were audible through the windows I was viewing them - the lower notes could not be heard - there were so many singing, it was quite a cacophony - I didn't want to open a window as these birds were all within 25 feet of where I sat - they stayed for an hour then moved on. Mark Alt Brooklyn Center, MN P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
