On Tue, 11 Apr 1995, Michael Smith wrote:

>
> 3 interesting points from a brief visit to ML Fill in Seattle tonight:
>
> 1.) A single Barn Swallow among all the VGSW
> 2.) 2 Virginia Rails calling from the Union Bay Marsh
> 3.) A Canada Goose laid an egg on the path *right* in front of me. Not
> in a nest (or for that matter anywhere near any nest), but right in a
> muddy spot. Then she walked off and never looked back.


And how did the omlette taste? Or did you fry it?

There were half a dozen barn swallows, several tree swallows and one cliff
swallow, I believe (seen briefly, but pink rump evident), in the area on
Sunday when Amy and I went for a paddle. The pied-billed grebes are
calling, and there were more than 100 cormorants roosting on the log boom
in Union Bay, but otherwise the waterfowl are really thinning out.

Chris Hill
Seattle, WA
cehill at u.washington.edu