Did a quick birding of North Seattle Community College yesterday
afternoon. Not a lot of species but some interesting stuff.

The swale for water runoff has created a dam which allows a small lake to
appear during the wet season. This is slowly looking likethe central pond
at Montlake, not as big, and it usually disappears by mid-summer but right
now it had a pair of WOODDUCKS. Woodducks are fairly frequent on the surge
pond but this is the first time I've seen them on a relatively open pond.
They seemed quite happy.

A single WARBLING VIREO was nearby and quite a few VIOLET GREEN SWALLOWS
over the new pond. More RED WINGED BLACKBIRDS than have been around in
years and one RWB chased a GREAT BLUE HERON away from the nest.

A couple of KILLDEER poked around at the edge of the new pond. Last year
there were a couple of peeps in this new area, so I have hope that this
will become a common occurence as the area grows in and the construction
eventually stops.

And the usual band of BEWICKS WRENS, SPOTTED TOWHEES, ROBINS, WHITE
CROWNED SPARROWS, and alas very frequent COWBIRDS.



Douglas F. Daily
Seattle WA