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Date: 2 May 2020

Time: 1930

Location: Yelm, WA.

Weather:
Temp: 48
Wind: 5 MPH
Precipitation: None at time of observation.
Cloud Cover: 85%

Group Size: Individual

About the area: This is a rural agricultural neighborhood made up of three to twenty acre lots.

Habitat: Mix of open fields, dense shrubs, and mixed deciduous and coniferous forests.

Observation Point

Location: Morris RD, WA. 98597
GPS:

46°52'25.7"N 122°36'13.1"W
46.873817, -122.603630
Habitat:
Open area is surrounded by forests. The forest is Primarily second growth Douglas fir but mixed with Alder, Ash, and Cotton Wood trees.

Notes:
This Sooty Grouse is picking at gravel along the side of the road and flushed to perch on a fir tree limb as we walked by.
SIZE: Crow
COLORS: Brown, white, grey and black.
ACTIVITY: Perched in a tree and on the ground feeding.

Species Identified:
COMMON NAME: Sooty Grouse
LATIN NAME: Dendragapus fuliginosus
GENUS: Dendragapus
FAMILY: Phasianidae
ORDER: Galliformes
CLASS: Aves
PHYLUM: Chordata

Date: 7 Apr 2020

Time: 0900

Location: Yelm, WA.

Weather:
Temp: 40
Wind: Calm to 5 MPH
Precipitation: None at time of observation.
Cloud Cover: 95%

Group Size: Individual

About the area: This is a rural agricultural neighborhood made up of three to twenty acre lots.

Habitat: Mix of open fields, dense shrubs, and mixed deciduous and coniferous forests.

Observation Point

Location: 143th AVE SE Yelm, WA. 98597
GPS: 46°52'47.4"N, 122°35'58.4"W
46.879825, -122.599560
Habitat:
Open area is surrounded by forests. The forest is Primarily second growth Douglas fir but mixed with Alder, Ash, and Cotton Wood trees.

Notes:
These California Quail were in an overgrown field and flushed to the brush piles as I walked by.
SIZE: Crow
COLORS: Tan, chestnut, blue-grey, white and black.
ACTIVITY: In a brush pile and on the ground feeding.

Species Identified:
COMMON NAME: California Quail
LATIN NAME: Callipepla californica
GENUS: Callipepla
FAMILY: Odontophoridae
ORDER: Galliformes
CLASS: Aves
PHYLUM: Chordata

Date: 6 Apr 2020

Time: 1220

Location: Yelm, WA.

Weather:
Temp: 49
Wind: Calm to 5 MPH
Precipitation: None at time of observation.
Cloud Cover: 5%

Group Size: Individual

About the area: This is a rural agricultural neighborhood made up of three to twenty acre lots.

Habitat: Mix of open fields, dense shrubs, and mixed deciduous and coniferous forests.

Observation Point

Location: 15904 148th AVE SE Yelm, WA. 98597
GPS: 46°52'26.7"N 122°36'17.4"W
46.874089, -122.604820
Habitat:
Open area is surrounded by forests. The forest is Primarily second growth Douglas fir but mixed with Alder, Ash, and Cotton Wood trees.

Notes:
This Varied Thrush was feeding on the ground under a feed and lighted in the vine maple when I went to take the picture.
SIZE: Robin
COLORS: Black, and orange.
ACTIVITY: Resting in a tree.

Species Identified:
COMMON NAME: Varied Thrush
LATIN NAME: Ixoreus naevius
GENUS: Ixoreus
FAMILY: Turdidae
ORDER: Passeriformes
CLASS: Aves
PHYLUM: Chordata

Growing solitary with Polystrichum munitum (Sword Fern). Found on the Kifer loop trail at on the Evergreen State College campus approximately 100 meters from the Organic Farm trail end on the right side of trail. Mixed deciduous/ coniferous forest habitat, dominated by Acer macrophyllum and Douglas fir. Growing at the base of a Douglas Fir. Understory consists of Salal, Oregon Grape, Sword Fern, Evergreen Huckleberry, Red Huckleberry, Beaked Hazelnut.

Morning frost was already melting and steaming from the rooftops when I saw this Robin land at the edge of the waterfall. The robin splashed and bathed on the left side first, then flitted to the right side for a couple more dips.

Habitat: Edge of a shaded pond in mixed deciduous understory plants (Mostly Rhododendron macrophyllum, but also lots of winterberry) and a conifer dominant overstory. Backyard of apartment complex along Evergreen Park Drive Sw Olympia WA