[birder]

Birds are changing with the seasons here, nesters are leaving or quietly feeding about with migrant flocks, Yellow-rumped warblers, Mountain chickadees, 3 sp of nuthatch, Downy woodpeckers. We have had an invasion of sorts from birds normally South of us, DC cormorants in front of our place alot now, Caspian terns less common, and this week a Common egret! The cormorants roost in the neighbor's Douglas firs at night, weird. The Ospreys are still here, but will move South next month, (they only eat fish) other hawks are passing through, Coopers, ect, still waiting for any truly winter birds, but we rode up the local hills to about 4,000ft and grouse (ruffed) and moose up there!