Today Rob Conway wrote:

I agree with Carl's observation. I saw this bird at about 5:00
yesterday in the Kennydale area of Renton. Long trailing legs. I would

guess another escapee from wherever they have been coming from. I saw
what I would identify as a Sacred Ibis in the same area 3 weeks ago.
Didn't report it here after being hounded when I reported a Hoopoe and
Wood Pigeons in the same general vicinity last fall. Who can't keep a
lock on their aviary door? There is (was?) a breeder on Kent East Hill
near Valley Medical Center (about 3 miles as the birds fly from North
Renton) that used to have many exotics...could they be coming from
there?


Apparently these several sightings of white stork (Kent, Renton,
Bellevue, Mercer Island, Woodland Park Zoo, Discovery Park, and North
Seattle and others?) are of one or both of TWO white storks belonging to
a private aviculturist from Renton (I believe). He was contacted
yesterday and confirmed that they were young birds that escaped before
he clipped their wings. This individual has had other birds escape in
the past, including an emperor goose at the same time that one was being
seen at Haller Lake several years ago.

Greg Toffic
Curator of Birds
Woodland Park Zoological Gardens
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