Subject: Montlkae Fill - Nov 5th 1995
Date: Nov 6 07:27:56 1995
From: Stuart MacKay - stuart.mackay at attws.com


Well Guy Fawkes day was kind of interesting at the Fill:

34 hooded mergansers on the central pond - very impressive.

At the feeder:

10 golden-crowned sparrows
6-8 white-crowned sparrows
2 savannah sparrows


BTW In the UK, Guy Fawkes was a royalist and after the supporters of King
Charles I were defeated by Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War, he tried
to blow up the Houses Of Parliment with everybody in it. South of the border,
the "festivities" involve burning an efigy of Guy and celebrating that he
didn't succeed. Meanwhile north of the border, most Scot's celebrate because
he tried, but alas, failed :-))

See ya,

Stuart
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Stuart MacKay, Ravenna Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98105