Subject: Boeing Birds
Date: Apr 26 11:37:24 1999
From: Susan L. Collicott - camel at serv.net



I spent this wekeend down at the Boeing Space Center in Kent, WA. After
watching the Harrier family last year, I was interested to see how many
Harriers I'd see this year.

Wow! I think (now mind you, I was also trying to race a car at the same
time) I saw 4 at once. I've lost the email for the fellow who showed me
around last year, if you're still on tweeters, would you contact me? I
couldn't see (without binocs) if any of them had tags on. I'd like to
know who is up there in the sky - the young from last year? newcomers? I
only seemed to see females, but I didn't think there were that many
females in the area.

I heard a lot of Red-tailed Hawks over the weekend, too. Saw the harriers
harassing one red-tailed over by the entrance to the Boeing lots, on the 4
wooden poles in the fenced-in area. Also counted 9 GBHs at once, at
6:30am on Saturday, in the ditch alon 212th west from the entrance to the
lots. And over in the gun range, lots of killdeer, a meadowlark, a
Sharp=shinned (I think - again, no binocs), lots of song sparrows, lots of
wrens (a few Bewick's, I think - heard that familiar buzz), and relatively
few starlings. Fewer than last year, I think! Perhaps cleaning up more
of the stored junk there has removed some nesting sites.

Susan Collicott
Sunset Hill neighborhood
Seattle, WA