Stuart,

Is your feeder area just north of the main central pond where there's a
patch of what looks like lawn surrounded by blackberries, etc.? I saw
several white-crowns and golden-crowns, a fox, three lincolns, & two
spotted towhees there Saturday AM. Also an ad. male Cooper's and an
immature Cooper's, two adult and one subadult Bald Eagle, two Red-tails,
and a Short-eared Owl, the latter being driven off to the se by crows. A
Green Heron was still lurking in the willow on the w edge of the main
pond and I counted closer to 50 Hoodies there. Six Mute Swans are on the
bay, including three gray juveniles.

Gene Hunn.

On Mon, 6 Nov 1995, Stuart MacKay wrote:

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