[SBB] PLVI Still at CCRS

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All:
 
At 7:15 this morning, Wednesday, the Plumbeous Vireo was still at CCRS.  It 
was a gray morning and there was very little birdsong, except for one Varied 
Thrush song given twice.  The active presence of a Coopers Hawk and a 
conspicuously perched Merlin may have contributed to the quiet.  I was half way along 
the non-maintained trail between nets 9515 and 9420 and had stopped to admire a 
gigantic spider.  The bird flew past me to land in the top of the brush, about 
10 feet off the ground and no more than 20 feet away.  Even before I raised 
my binoculars, the heavier vireo bill, the bright wing bars, the prominent, 
almost-complete eye-ring, let me know that I had something special.  We quietly 
examined each other for at least five minutes.  Without all of the hullabaloo I 
might have passed it off as the most lead-colored Huttons Vireo I had ever 
seen.  The bird quietly flew off to the west.  I was still standing there making 
a few notes when it returned, to examine me even more closely for a minute or 
so.  Then it quietly flew off towards the creek to the east.  That is the way 
to see a lifer.  You have to be lucky.  As May West once said, goodness had 
nothing to do with it.
 
Frank Vanslager
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