Subject: marymoore park birds
Date: Mar 28 00:00:23 1999
From: Deborah Wisti-Peterson - nyneve at u.washington.edu



hello tweets.

i went to marymoore park this afternoon and discovered that
i was poorly dressed for hiking around in such a cold wind.
even though i didn't stay very long, i did manage to see 35
species of birds while i was there. some of the highlights
of my adventure included four white-crowned sparrows, one in
adult plumage and three in last year's juvenile plumage,
sitting together in a small tree, eating tiny leaf buds that
were still tightly closed. i also was thrilled by the swallows,
mostly violet-greens, that ricocheted mere inches over the top
of my head on the icy winds. i also noticed the veritable
explosion in the marsh wren population that was singing and
buzzing from every cattail stand along the boardwalk. i never
get tired of these small energetic fellows! i also had a great
time following the northern shrike located in the grassy pasture
between the large dog-poop area and the velodrome. i watched
this lovely bird for half an hour before i finally took shelter
to thaw out. luckily, i called it quits before the brief hailstorm
arrived.

my bird list follows, if anyone is interested;

pied-billed grebe
double-crested cormorant
great blue heron
canada geese
mallard
gadwall
green-winged teal
northern shoveler
bufflehead
american coot
killdeer
ring-billed gull
glaucous-winged gull
red-tailed hawk
rock dove
anna's hummingbird
northern (red-shafted) flicker
downy woodpecker
violet-green swallows
tree swallows
american crow
bushtit
black-capped chickadee
marsh wren
bewick's wren
american robin
northern shrike
european starling (bazillions!)
spotted towhee
song sparrow
dark-eyed junco
white-crowned sparrow
red-winged blackbird
house (english) sparrow
house finch

Deborah Wisti-Peterson email:nyneve at u.washington.edu
Department of Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash, USA
Visit me on the web: http://weber.u.washington.edu/~nyneve/
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