Subject: Better late than never..Sunday 2/15/98 @ Foster island
Date: Feb 17 23:53:37 1998
From: Ivorybilld at aol.com - Ivorybilld at aol.com


here I go...
Great Blue Heron 2
Common Merganser 3
Hooded Merganser 1
Scaups (couldn't tell which, too far away)
Ring Necked Ducks 5 M, 3F (first time for me...made me very happy :)
Green Winged Teal 1M, 1F
Mallards (lots)
Buffleheads (lots)
Canadian Geese (lots)
Barrow's Goldeneye
Common Goldeneye
Pie-Billed Grebe
Hummingbird (silhouette, could not see colors due to "sun", yes, it was sunny)
Juncos
Robins
Bushtits
Starlings
Crows
Ruby Crowned Kinglet 7
American coots (lots)
Western Grebe 1 (stuck out like a sore thumb in a large group of coots in
water)
House Finches

It was a gorgeous day. Hopefully my not so exact list is not offensive to
many. I thoroughly enjoyed finding the Ringnecks, which I've never seen and
the abundance of birds, although hearing them gets tough around the 520
bridge.
Some day the birds that were singing I'll be able to attempt to identify with
their song. For now, It's a shot in the dark, alot of reference to the
"books" and the challenge of just finding them in the branches. lol....And it
sounded alot like spring out and about on Sunday. Numerous songs were being
sung....

Ivory
Ivoryblld at aol.com
Seattle, WA