Tweeters,

Yesterday I wrote:

If you want to try other madrone groves try the bike/pedestrian path on
the east shore of Lake Washington between Coal Creek Parkway in Bellevue
and SE 112th in Renton (accessible via the 112th exit off of 405), or
several of the trails in the Bellevue city trails network on the south
side of the Somerset neighborhood (where there is one quite substantial
grove).
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Whoops!

Actually the east shore groves are South of SE 112th between the SE
112th and 44th SE exits off of 405 - not between 112th and Coal Creek. I
checked yesterday and there are only a few trees with berries, but lots
and lots of birds - robins, starlings, a thrush or two, unidentified
accipiter, unidentified medium sized owl, and a lot of near shore ducks
(buffleheads, mallards, common mergansers, etc) (I was jogging - no
binoc's so I wasn't really birding, just scouting).

The Somerset groves can be accessed by trails (marked by 36" posts with
blue "hiker" signs) that intersect 136th Pl SE in Bellevue between
Somerset Pl SE and SE 51st place. Again, only a few trees with berries,
but there were a number of robins and one varied thrush snacking away at
about 3:45 pm.

Hope this helps folks in there quest for winter berry munchers.

Rob Conway
Cougar Mountain - Bellevue WA

robin_conway at hotmail.com




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