This morning about 17 E. L. Wash. AS (ELWAS) members and friends walked Green
L. with Martin Muller. It was a foggy but dry morning until the sun started
breaking out about 1030. We saw 36 species. Anyone who hasn't done this walk
with Martin is missing a good experience. He is the expert on Green L.
history and the birds to be seen there. We usually schedule a field trip
there every Dec. I have been on 4 or 5 and I learn something new from Martin
each time. This was the first time I have gone that it wasn't raining, a nice
change. The birds seen follow:

Pied-billed Grebes (numerous)
Double-crested Cormorants
Great Blue Herons
Greater White-fronted Goose
Canada Geese
Mallard
No. Shoveler
Gadwall (wherever there were Am. Coots)
American Wigeon
Eurasian Wigeon (usually 1 or 2 seen each trip)
Common Goldeneye
Bufflehead
Common Mergansers
Ruddy Ducks
Bald Eagles (2) - one man new to Seattle from Calif. said this was his second
ever.
Merlin - flew by, landed in a tree and was promptly chased off by a crow.
American Coots
Five gulls - Mew, Ring-billed, California, Herring and Glaucous-winged
Rock Dove
Red-breasted Sapsucker - working at some holes in a tree and stayed in one
place for as long as we were there. Everybody got good looks with
scopes. It was a life bird for a woman from Maryland.
Downy Woodpecker
American Crows
Black-capped Chickadees
Bushtits followed us all around
Golden-crowned and Ruby-crowned Kinglets
American Robin
European Starlings, of course
Song Sparrow
Brewer's Blackbird (1)
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
and many varieties of domesticated and hybrid ducks and geese.

Hugh Jennings
Bellevue, WA
hughbirder at aol.com