Sorry Birders,
Yesterdays Birds at North Percival Creek i wrote:4 White Throated Sparrow,
it should say:White Crown Sparrow.
Ruth Sullivan

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> From: Ruth Sullivan <GODWIT at worldnet.att.net>
> To: tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Kennedy Creek beginning of Shorebird Migration:
> Date: Sunday, April 05, 1998 6:32 PM
>
> Hello Tweeters,
> On Kennedy Creek today i watched a Spectacular display of Shorebirds.i
went
> on a incomming Tide around 10.30AM, i took one look, and could not
believe
> what i saw. This large amount of beach was full of shorebirds bussy
> feeding. An rougly estimation 5000 and so Birds.I Scoped for 30 minutes,
> and found out, there where only 3 Species:Killdeer Black-bellied Plover
and
> all the Dunlin's.Some of the Back-bellied Plover's where already in full
> breeding Plumage. This is the first time since i been going there for the
> past six years, to see this large amount at one time. Something always
> stirred them up, so there was this beautifull synchronized pattern of
> flight, it was spectacular to watch!!!!!!
>
> Mud-Bay:
> Very few Birds.Mallard, Buffelhead, Common Goldeneye, Mew Gulls,
> Glaucous-winged Gull,2Greater Yellowlegs.
>
> Percival Creek detention Ponds:Most of all the Swallow houses had Tree
> Swallows on them, with few Violet Swallow claiming there
territory.Mallard,
> Green-winged Teal, Northern Shoveler, Canada Goose
> 4 Killdeer making a racked of noise and following me around.
> 2 Red-tailed Hawk
> 1Cooper's Hawk
> Male Ring-necked Pheasant
> 2 Band-tailed Pigio
> 1 Northern Flicker
> 1 Red-breasted Sapsucker
> Tree Swallow's
> Violet-green Swallow's
> 1 Steller's Jay
> 4 Chestnut-backed Chickadee
> 1Red-breasted Nuthatch
> 1 Bewick's Wren
> 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
> 6 American Robin
> 1 Common Yellowthroat
> 2 Spotted Towhee
> 3 Song Sparrow
> 6 Dark-eyed Junco
> 4 White throated Sparrow
> 1 Fox Sparrow
> 20 Red-winged Blackbirds
> 1 female Goldfinch
> This Place should be watched for Rare Shorebirds ende April to May
>
> East Bay Olympia:I had 2 Horned Grebes in breeding Plumage!!!!
> 2 Reneced Grebe
> 6Horned Grebe
> 15 Double-crested Cormorant
> 4 Pelagic Cormorant
> 1 Great Blue Herron
> 15 Canada Goose
> 4 Mallard
> 8 Black Scoter
> 1 White-winged Scoter
> 30 Surf Scoter
> 10 Barrow's Goldeneye
> 8 Common Goldeneye
> 4 Common Merganser
> 6Red-breasted Merganser
> 4 Hooded Merganser
> 20 Buffelhead
> 1 Boneparte's Gull
> 1 Ring-billed Gull
> 25 Mew Gull
> 2 California Gull
> 20 and Glaucous winged-Western Hybird
> 2Common Murre
> 6 Pigeon Guillemot
> 1 Bald Eagle
> 1 Female Hummingbird,{on wild Currant,}
> Male Kingfisher
>
> Ruth Sullivan
> GODWIT at worldnet.att.net
>