How about a Bewick's Wren for the mystery bird? And perhaps the
Blue-winged Teal were Green-winged Teal? It's rather late for
Blue-winged and/or Cinnamon.

Gene Hunn.

On Mon, 9 Oct 1995, Jane Stewart wrote:

>
> Big Pond
>
> 2 male 1 female green backed heron
> 10 northern shoveler
> 4 blue winged teal
> 2 belted kingfisher
> 1 pied-billed grebe
> regulars
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> Small Pond
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> 2 gadwall
> 4 mallard
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> Lake Washington
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> 2 western grebe
> 6 gadwall
> 4 american wigeon
> 50 american coot
> 1 pied-billed grebe
> regulars
>
> various sparrows
> no shorebirds
> no lapland longspur
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> Beautiful day!
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> one mystery bird?
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> on top of berry hedge, singing like a "lark"
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> tail like a wren
> slim dark beak
> light legs
> white chin and chest
> black eye stripe
> white stripe over eye
> back and head feathers like a sparrow (brown stripe)
> slightly larger than a sparrow and leaner
>
> experts????
>
> Jane Stewart
> Librarian
> Bogle & Gates
> Two Union Square
> 601 Union Street
> Seattle, WA 98101-2346
> Phone 206-682-5151
> Fax 206-621-2660
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