Tweets,

I looked for the "big white bird" without success both yesterday and
today. I work just across the street from where the sighting took
place. Yes, the aviary keeper is in Newcastle - just to the NE of this
sight. With the number of "exotics" that I've seen in the neighborhood
over the past several years (storks, cranes, pigeons, and even a hoopoe)
I'd say he has a real problem with keeping his doors closed. I think
Greg Toffic is right on with the ID, but if I remember correctly the
earlier escaped birds were not described as banded and this one is - and
hadn't the previous birds been reported in the Portland area a couple of
months back? Maybe its mom or dad. I've always know the south end of
Lake Washington was a "trap" for birds - but this is ridiculous.

Rob Conway
Bellevue, WA

robin_conway at hotmail.com


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>Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 21:13:27 -0800 (PST)
>Reply-To: bf519 at scn.org
>From: bf519 at scn.org (Jim P. Flynn)
>To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
>Subject: Re: White Stork???
>
>Hi Murray,
>
> I'll try to take a look this weekend - with the clock
>shifting away from daylight savings time it's impossible now
>to get away from work early enough in the afternoon to do any
>birding :(
> I have a fair idea of where the Kenworth plant is; I
>think it's part of PACCAR which is between the Boeing plant
>and I-405. It's just a stone's throw away from Gene Coulon
>park. Maybe the reporters of the bird meant "Coulon" instead
>of "Carrousel". There's nothing like that in Renton that I'm
>aware of.
> One of the first reports of the storks came from the
>Kennydale neighborhood just to the North (was it Rob Conway?).
>This is quite close to Newport where I believe somebody said
>the birds originated from. I took down the name and phone #
>of the man who keeps the exotic birds and I'll have to call
>him and see if he's interested in trying to recapture it. I
>imagine such a bird isn't inexpensive!
>
> Jim Flynn
> Renton, WA
> bf519 at scn.org
>


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