I bet this was the same bird a saw this weekend. It also seemed oblivious
to my presence and stayed in the open a lot.
-Good Birding-

Brendan McGarry, 16
Seattle, Washington
Pica_pica417 at hotmail.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Dossett" <phainopepla at yahoo.com>
To: <Tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 10:12 AM
Subject: Montlake Fill this morning (4/24/02)


> Hi Tweets,
>
> Well, this morning I decided to leave the house about
> 45 minutes early and walk around the montlake fill a
> little bit before class (one of the bad things of
> having such a great place on campus is the temptation
> to skip classes. Fortunately I haven't yet yielded to
> this temptation this spring :-)
>
> Anyway it was a great morning with several highlights.
> The first highlight was as I was photographing a pair
> of Cinnamon Teal on the Dime lot pond. I was getting
> some nice shots of them when I felt something on my
> shoe. I looked down and a Virginia Rail had just
> walked across the toe of my shoe! It was
> unbelievable! As the Rail walked a little further
> away so that the close focus on my camera was no
> longer inhibited by its distance, I was able to get a
> few nice photos of it. While all this was going on, I
> heard the distinctive song of a male Yellow-headed
> Blackbird several times behind me, toward the main
> pond. When I went over to the main pond I found a
> second pair of Cinnamon Teal but no Yellow-headed
> Blackbird. Thorough searching turned up 2 Killdeer as
> the only shorebirds this morning. Right as I was
> about to leave, I found the Yellow-headed Blackbird as
> he started to sing at the SE corner of the fill in the
> Cattails on the edge of Lake Washington.
>
> And I made it to class on time too!
>
> Michael Dossett
> Bothell, WA
> phainopepla at yahoo.com
>
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