My car is demanding a water pump transplant, so I couldn't head up to the
Tukwila pond, but I managed to check out some of the areas within walking
distance of me.

First Stop:
The Ol' Fishin' Hole in Kent

COOTS 2
WIGEONS One pair American
PIED BILLED GREBE
MALLARDS
MONGREL GULL of uncertain pedigree

Next stop:
Woodland Estates (Intersection of Kent-DesMoines Rd and Reith/W. Meeker

First pond
GREAT BLUE HERON (I got a good frontal look at the bird and it's breast
feathers. It was also "hanging its wings to dry" in a cormorant
manner.....)
One little NUTHATCH
BELTED KINGFISHER, (heard)

Landscaped pond, adjacent to the boardwalk.

HOODED MERGANSERS (one male, four females)
BELTED KINGFISHER (heard only)
Lots of MALLARDS (two female mallards got into a fight! They were
literally head-to-head, butting each other!)

I then walked along the river by the golf course.

NORTHERN SHOVELERS in the golf course ponds.
A BALD EAGLE flew overhead. Very casual, low level flight for a baldie. At
first I thought it was a huge, very dark gull!

My last stop was at The Lakes subdivision which is just south by less than a
mile from the Kent Ponds/GRNRC.

The majority of the birds today were WIGEONS. I scanned for Eurasian, but
all I could be sure of seeing were American Wigeons.
Quite a few COMMON and HOODED MERGANSERS
Many MALLARDS
Two RING BILLED GULLS and a mongrel gull or two

And one, lone CACKLING CANADA GOOSE, sounding like a bathtub rubber ducky
compared to its large, usual suspect companions.

One of the larger geese had an unusual marking. It had a long slender neck
with cheek patches narrower and darker than the other large Canadas nearby.
I don't think it was a domestic-Canada hybrid, because all other coloring
and markings and size were "normal".

Back to HENRY V go I......


Lydia In Kent, WA
Lydia Gaebe
lgaebe at msn.com

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