Subject: A very birdy day - and more Redpolls
Date: Jan 04 17:00:48 1998
From: "Rob Conway" - robin_conway at hotmail.com


Tweets -

I worked the neighborhood loop yesterday, with a couple of inches of
snow on the ground, and viewed the following birds:

300 pine siskins (in two great whirling flocks - feeding on alders)

100 Robins, 3 Varied Trushes, 50 Starlings, 6 Cedar Waxwings - All
feeding on cotoneaster berries in a yard.

2 Brown Creepers, 6 RB Nuthatches, 20 CB Chickadees, 10 BC Chickadees
50 DE Juncoes, 10 Song Sparrows, Lincolns Sparrow, 3 Winter Wrens, 60
Bushtits, 5 GC Kinglets, 3 RC Kinglets, 3 Spotted Towhees, 1 great
horned owl all along a creekside/open field border trail.

5 band tailed pigeons, 1 merlin, 1 flock of 11 white geese (snows?), 1
adult bald eagle, 1 redtail all in flight.

AND.....6 Redpolls. These birds were in a very accessible place, right
on the street in the 147XX block of SE 56th in Bellevue, on the south
slope of the ridge just below the Hilltop neighborhood. I heard them
first and then saw them. They were feeding on alder seeds.

I noted with some dismay that the NW fork of Coal Creek was running
grey-brown with sediment from the new Summit West subdivision. But then
I was heartened to see a Douglas Squirrel in the neighborhood (my first)
maybe the nasty greys haven't driven them all off after all.

All in all a very birdy day.

Rob Conway
Cougar Mtn - Bellevue, WA

robin_conway at hotmail.com




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