[birding] I can stop crying now

[howard bruner]

Hey Randy

I assure you I enjoyed and showed my wife your previous message about being able scoff in your
general direction.  You did not diss me - rather you confirmed that you too would have been looking for a cat
- as I did until I found the goshawk.

But back to current birds:  I spent the day in the Panther Creek watershed to the west of NW of McMinnville.
There were numerous flights of red crossbills; visits by bc chicks; Raven cronkings overhead; and a barrage
of Doug fir cones that I first thought was the pounding of a pileated woodpecker but discovered they were
missiles from rambunctious Douglas squirrels.  Last week in the same area a 3-some of gray jays,
beau coup winter wrens and abundant bearsign. 

 
 It's been pointed out to me that the juvenile Goshawk I found at Snag Boat Bend last Saturday
 was just where Howard Bruner had reported having heard a juvenile Goshawk (on 10/11).  I only
 vaguely remembered his post (to the mid-valley list) because what most impressed me about it
 was that someone might have the temerity to ID a Goshawk in such an unlikely location on the
 basis of a mewing call--even someone like Howard, who has spent a lot of time up in the Cascades.
 So I promptly forgot almost all the information in his post, and I wasn't looking for a Goshawk
 when I confirmed Howard's ID.  Howard is evidently a much better birder than I am, but that is
 not a huge revelation to me.  If I had heard a mewing call, I would have looked around for a cat.


Randy Campbell      
 		 	   		  
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