Subject: RE: birding at Discovery Park
Date: Aug 6 17:07:19 1996
From: Michael Hobbs - mikeho at microsoft.com


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>From: Anglin, Laurinda[SMTP:LANGLIN at wsdot.wa.gov]
>To: Tweeters
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>What can one expect to see at Discovery Park this time of year?
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>Please send replies directly to me at LANGLIN at WSDOT.WA.GOV as I'm not on
>Tweeters any more.
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>Thanks,
>Laurinda

>Here are the 61 species I have seen in King County during the last three
>weeks of August. Most of these sightings were at Marymoor Park, and most are
from the last four years. Discovery park should have more in the way of
>gulls, ducks, and grebe, but otherwise should be similar. Hope this helps.
>
>Pied-billed Grebe
>Great Blue Heron
>Green Heron
>Canada Goose
>Gadwall
>Mallard
>American Wigeon
>Common Merganser
>Red-tailed Hawk
>Osprey
>American Kestrel
>American Coot
>Virginia Rail
>Spotted Sandpiper
>Solitary Sandpiper
>Glaucous-winged Gull
>Ring-Billed Gull
>Rock Dove
>Vaux's Swift
>Black Swift
>Belted Kingfisher
>Northern Flicker
>Downy Woodpecker
>Hairy Woodpecker
>Western Wood-Pewee
>Pacific-slope Flycatcher
>Willow Flycatcher
>Barn Swallow
>Cliff Swallow
>Violet-green Swallow
>American Crow
>Steller's Jay
>Black-capped Chickadee
>Chestnut-backed Chickadee
>Bushtit
>Red-breasted Nuthatch
>Brown Creeper
>Marsh Wren
>Bewick's Wren
>Swainson's Thrush
>American Robin
>Cedar Waxwing
>European Starling
>Red-eyed Vireo
>Warbling Vireo
>Black-throated Gray Warbler
>Yellow Warbler
>Common Yellowthroat
>Wilson's Warbler
>Western Tanager
>Black-headed Grosbeak
>Song Sparrow
>Savannah Sparrow
>Spotted Towhee
>White-crowned Sparrow
>Red-winged Blackbird
>American Goldfinch
>Pine Siskin
>House Finch
>House Sparrow
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