Subject: Re: Montlake Fill & Foster Island 3/11/98
Date: Mar 11 17:16:52 1998
From: "Michael & Janka Hobbs" - mjct_hobbs at email.msn.com


Oh - and I forgot to add, I bumped into our own Christine Maack and her
husband, on Foster Island.

Tweeters everywhere!

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael & Janka Hobbs <mjct_hobbs at email.msn.com>
To: Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Date: Wednesday, March 11, 1998 4:52 PM
Subject: Montlake Fill & Foster Island 3/11/98


>Great day of birding today!
>
>At the Fill this morning, I saw over 50 species, with highlights as
follows:
>
>Tree Swallow 3
>Violet-green Swallow 1 Definitive looks
>Gr. White-fronted Goose 1 With Canadas - left around noon
>Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Harassed by crows
>Yellow-rumped Warbler 3 Gorgeous male Audubons
>Lincoln's Sparrow 1
>Bald Eagle 1 Immature
>Wood Duck 2 Pair
>Western Meadowlark 1
>
>At Foster Island I found an Anna's Hummingbird nest with the female sitting
>on it, just south of Hwy 520.
>
>I also saw a Virginia Rail from the raised platform.
>
>There were also two very small (large Mallard size) very dark Canada Geese,
>with tiny bills at the big pond. What race might these be? They were
>darkest just where the neck met the chest. In the NGS guide, the closest
>picture was the minima, which matched the overall shape, and matched the
>size of the bill. The birds I saw might even have been darker.
>
>== Michael Hobbs
>== Kirkland WA
>== MJCT_Hobbs at msn.com
>
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