Subject: Saturday, Jan. 24 sightings
Date: Jan 24 14:38:41 1998
From: Eugene Hunn - hunnhome at accessone.com


Gene Hunn, Seattle, hunnhome at accessone.com

This morning I spent 1 hour looking for the Glaucous Gull at the Foster Golf
Course in Tukwila and vicinity with no luck. Lots of Thayer's there,
however. It is the most common species. One bird with a "glaucous-type"
two-toned bill, but it had a dark gray belly and medium gray primaries.

Later in the morning Nancy and I drove out past Duvall to the Two Rivers
Unit state wildlife land just into Snohomish County. Found one male Rusty
Blackbird right where it had been reported a couple of weeks ago. Enter off
Tualco Loop Rd. parking area, cross the slough to the southwest, then keep
right/west along the hedgerow to the fence in the westernmost corner. It was
sitting quietly all by itself in a leafless deciduous tree about 20 feet up,
keeping well apart from the 1000 odd blackbirds (mostly Red-wings) flocking
along the eastern margin of the field.

Quickly relocated the Clay-colored and one White-throated Sparrows just se
of the junction of the Woodinville-Duvall Rd. and West Snoqualmie Valley
Rd., off the latter just se of the parking area on the east side of the road
at the fir clump. About a mile north of that intersection far off in the
fields were 11 swans which I estimated to include four Trumpeter's and the
rest Tundras, but they were too far out to be 100% sure.

Gene.