Hola Tweets!

I just got back from my vacation in Oregon to find the following
message! Well Ed, I couldn't have said it better myself! Just a
couple of points. You got your cardinal directions turned around just
a little. That should be East of the lake and West of tHi Tweets,

I just got back from my vacation in Oregon and I found Ed's message in
my inbox. I couldn't have said it better myself, although I have a
couple of additions.

The area is East of the lake, and West of the existing ballfield and
soccerfield. Also, I just want to make it clear the time of this
meeting is 7:00 P.M. on July 7th. I would like to thank the few of you
who took the oppurtunity to reply to my request for sightings in the
park. I have yet to incorperate Dave Beaudette's list, and I have
already come up with 111 species for the park. The fact that I have
seen 91 of these in the past year tells me there is more birds that
show up here from time to time but are never seen by people because
Shoreview Park does not get the bird watcher coverage that it needs to
become any sort of "hot spot." Still, I believe that the list shows
that Shoreview has a history of turning up a number of rare or unusual
birds. But don't take my word for it! See for yourselves! The
following is a list of birds for the park, in Alphabetical order:

Blackbird, Brewer's
Blackbird, Red-winged
Bluebird, Mountain
Bufflehead
Bunting, Lazuli
Bushtit
Chickadee, Black-capped
Chickadee, Chestnut-backed
Coot, American
Cormerant, Double-crested
Cowbird, Brown-headed
Creeper, Brown
Crossbill, Red
Crow, American
Dipper, American
Dove, Mourning
Dove, Rock
Duck, Ring-necked
Eagle, Bald
Finch, House
Finch, Purple
Flicker, Northern
Flycatcher, Hammond's
Flycatcher, Olive-sided
Flycatcher, Pacific-slope
Flycatcher, Willow
Goldeneye, Barrow's
Goldeneye, Common
Goldfinch, American
Goose, Canada
Grosbeak, Black-headed
Grosbeak, Evening
Gull, Glaucous-winged
Gull, Ring-billed
Hawk, Cooper's
Hawk, Red-tailed
Hawk, Sharp-shinned
Heron, Great-blue
Heron, Green
Hummingbird, Anna's
Hummingbird, Rufous
Jay, Steller's
Junco, Dark-eyed
Kestrel, American
Killdeer
Kingfisher, Belted
Kinglet, Golden-crowned
Kinglet, Ruby-crowned
Loon, Common
Mallard
Merlin
Nuthatch, Red-breasted
Oriole, Bullock's
Osprey
Owl, Barred
Owl, Great-horned
Owl, Northern Saw-whet
Owl, Northern-pygmy
Owl, Snowy
Owl, Western Screech
Pigeon, Band-tailed
Pipit, American
Quail, California
Robin, American
Sandpiper, Spotted
Sapsucker, Red-breasted
Sapsucker, Red-naped
Siskin, Pine
Snipe, Common
Solitaire, Townsend's
Sparrow, Black-Throated
Sparrow, Chipping
Sparrow, Fox
Sparrow, Golden-crowned
Sparrow, House
Sparrow, Lincoln's
Sparrow, Savannah
Sparrow, Song
Sparrow, White-crowned
Sparrow, White-throated
Starling, European
Swallow, Barn
Swallow, Cliff
Swallow, Northern Rough-winged
Swallow, Tree
Swallow, Violet-green
Swift, Vaux's
Tanager, Western
Thrush, Hermit
Thrush, Swainson's
Thrush, Varied
Towhee, Spotted
Vireo, Cassin's
Vireo, Hutton's
Vireo, Red-eyed
Vireo, Warbling
Vulture, Turkey
Warbler, Black-throated Gray
Warbler, MacGillivray's
Warbler, Orange-crowned
Warbler, Townsend's
Warbler, Wilson's
Warbler, Yellow
Warbler, Yellow-rumped
Waxwing, Cedar
Wood-pewee, Western
Woodpecker, Downy
Woodpecker, Hairy
Woodpecker, Pileated
Wren, Bewick's
Wren, Winter


Date: 16 Jun 99 12:30:18 PDT
From: Ed Newbold <newboldwildlife at netscape.net>
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Subject: Shoreview Park: ready to rumble?


Dear Tweeters,
Shoreview Park is in the city of Shoreline by the Community College and
by
Boeing Creek. The park contains good bird habitat, as many lists
posted over the past year by Michael Dossett will attest. The best
bird area is in the
west part of the park south of the creek and north of an existing
baseball field and soccer field. (With two playfields, this little
park is already burdened by a heavy athletic load). This is also the
place where a majority of the Shoreline City Council wants to put a new
little League ballfield. The Little League field apparently germinated
with a Mariners grant of $75,000 but the project envisioned will now
cost taxpayers about $2 million. (The Mariners have recently,
privately, distanced themselves from endorsing a site that is
environmentally destructive). There are cheaper alternative sites for
a field, some involving simply coordinating times between public school
fields and the little league.

I attended two Shoreline council meetings on this project and let me
tell you a few of the people on the Shoreline City Council don't seem
to be losing any sleep over the fact that this tax-and-spend project
will destroy bird habitat. After hearing testimony about birds seen in
the park, Councilor Bob Ransom stated, "There couldn't be many birds in
the Park, there's so many dogs there." At one meeting about 50 people
spoke, all opposed to the ballfield, including a young girl who had
seen a Redtail catch a Garter Snake there and a Shoreline Professor who
has brought his students there to study and observe nature. All the
eloquent testimony from so many citizens appeared to have fallen on
deaf ears.

This could be a done deal if we don't get an unprecedented turnout at
the Shoreview Community Council Chambers on July 7. I 'd like to see
a
first annual Tweeters family Get-together there, one with everybody
that has ever posted or lurked! As a sidebar, Don Baccus and Dennis
Rockwell will hug,
Price and Weber will have an Empid call contest, and there will be a
fly-by by a Xantu's Hummingbird. It'll be fun, and I'll bring the
lemonade.

Contact Jo Ann Laz at 206 546 6792 to sign up in advance. Jo Ann and
Ray Pelley deserve a lot of credit for creating opposition to this bit
of athletic tyranny.

Also, see my ad about this in this Sunday's Seattle Times. It should
be in the local section of the Times.



-Ed Newbold, Seattle (newboldwildlife at netscape.net)


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