Joyce,

The Black-crowned Night Heron is of considerable interest as there are very
few King County records. Exactly where was it and is it a regular bird there?

Gene Hunn.

At 05:59 PM 11/12/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi Tweets:
>
>Today, Nov. 12, I did the monthly bird survey of the Redmond Watershed
>Preserve. There were 17 species: Mallard, Lesser Scaup, Bufflehead,
>Black-crowned Night Heron, Belted Kingfisher, Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers,
>Steller's Jay, American Crow, Varied Thrush, Bewick's Wren, Winter Wren (49
>seen and /or heard), Ruby and Golden-crowned Kinglets, Black-capped
>Chickadee, Song Sparrow and Spotted Towhee. 30 different species have been
>observed in the 3 months that I've been doing the survey. Each survey takes
>3 1/2 to 5 hours and during the week you rarely encounter anyone else.
>
>Joyce Meyer
>Woodinville, WA
>MEYER2J at aol.com
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