Subject: Discovery Park report - uneventful
Date: Jul 17 08:37:40 1996
From: "Michael Patrick" - mpatrick at eldec.com


Tweets,

In the spirit of tracking alcid/gull/tern/shorebird activity in the Sound,
I took an evening walk to the shoreline area of Discovery Park. Very little
happening right now:

Pigeon Guillemot - one at Pocket Beach
California Gull - four off South Beach
Glaucous-winged Gull - two, one of which was restless to the point of
being annoying: flying back and forth, back and
forth, back and forth, yikes, what is it, lonely
or something?
Caspian Tern - two heading due west across Sound, one flying in foraging
like pattern

Even the land birds were quite. Dozens of barn and violet-green swallows,
one cedar waxwing, one house finch, one house sparrow, one pine siskin,
half a dozen rock doves by sewage plant (where else would they be?), usual
20 or 30 crows keeping the place from nearly complete silence, and a
significant gathering of robins (18) on a lawn.


Michael Patrick
mpatrick at eldec.com
(206)743-8204