Hi Tweets,

I GOT A SCOPE!
So we went out late afternoon (Me, Yuriko, Rex & Gail Kenner)
and had a quick look around the ponds at Iona.
The weather was just dry, but still windy, and fist thing to notice \were
the many skeins of Snow Geese coming from the north, 7 to 30
at a time. Then, when we stood between the ponds, we got great looks
at 2 Peregrines - presumably the 2 mentioned by Michael Price before
(a big darkish female; a smaller male with silvery back), flying,
hunting, chasing a Cooper's Hawk, sitting side by side in a cottonwood
at the NW corner. Dowitchers sp. were the only shorebirds we saw on
the ponds, and they sat it out.

Great Blue Heron
Snow Goose ++
Canada Goose +
Green-winged Teal ++
Mallard +
Pintail +
Shoveler +
Gadwall +
Am. Wigeon ++
Greater (?) Scaup 2
N. Harrier
Cooper's Hawk
Peregrine 2
Am. Coot
Dowitcher sp. 5+
Common Snipe
Mew Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Swallow sp. 5 (according to Vanc. checklist, should be Barn;
if so, they were juveniles, as they had no long tails)
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow

Now, I just have to get a better editor program at #$$%!

Reto 'I've got a scope!' Riesen
Dept. Chem., UBC
Vancouver, B.C.
riesenr at chem.ubc.ca