Ruth,

The dog is just fine. But it's hard to find places to bird and run the dog
at the same time without getting yelled at.

Gene.

At 07:47 PM 11/1/97 -0800, you wrote:
>gene ,we this seeing the end of all the cackling geese at the kent
>ponds,3:30 in the afternoon,but it was still nice to see this amount there
>most of theme flew off,south,so we saw the size differance.
>we also saw the greater yellowlegs, forgot to mention it,how is you dog?
>ruth
>
> GODWIT at worldnet.att.net
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>> From: Eugene Hunn <hunnhome at accessone.com>
>> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
>> Subject: birds seen Saturday, Nov. 1, near Seattle, WA
>> Date: Saturday, November 01, 1997 6:34 PM
>>
>> Hi Tweets:
>>
>> Gene Hunn, Seattle, hunnhome at u.washington.edu
>>
>> Nancy & I went down to Renton & Kent in the morning and did Discovery
>Park
>> in the afternoon. Highlights include:
>>
>> 1 Great Egret at the pond at the Boeing facility just west of where
>> Longacres Racetrack used to be. It has been there for a couple of weeks.
>>
>> 300+ Cackling Canada Geese at the Kent Ponds. Cackling Canada's were rare
>> here until just a few years ago. There were long skeins circling the
>ponds
>> and some finally decided to land. Their absurdly high pitched calls
>> attracted attention. At least one had a yellow neck band with what looked
>to
>> be a number "7" on it. Also a Merlin present.
>>
>> 20 Dunlins, 3 Greater Yellowlegs, and 1 Long-billed Dowitcher there and
>25
>> Dunlins and 35 Long-billed Dowitchers in a field south of Renton along
>West
>> Valley Rd. just south of the Smith Dairy Farm.
>>
>> 10 Heermann's Gulls still off West Point in Discovery Park with
>Bonaparte's
>> and Mews; 2 Oldsquaws flying south (I like that name; though politically
>> incorrect, it is actually onomatopoetic, not scurrilous) and also two
>> Pacific Loons; 700 Western Grebes; 24 Sanderlings; all three scoters.
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