Michael & Tweets:

There is a woman who is a park ranger of some sort who patrols Spencer
Island. When I was there a couple of weeks back, she was driving around the
non-hunting area, looking for illegal hunters, and stopped to talk to us. I
can't remember whether she was with the county or the state, but probably
some of our Everett birders know.

Ruth Taylor
rutht at seanet.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Hobbs <Hummer at isomedia.com>
To: Tweeters (E-mail) <TWEETERS at u.washington.edu>
Date: Monday, November 20, 2000 5:58 PM
Subject: Spencer Island


>Hi Tweets -
>
>I went up to Spencer Island this afternoon to try to get a better look at
the
>Red-shouldered Hawk. I did find the hawk, and got two brief looks at it,
but
>the Better Look escaped me. At around 3:00 p.m. it flew from the north,
>landing in the trees NE of the porta-potty. At the time, I was at the
hunting
>boundary point on the western part of the loop trail. I hustled back to
the
>barn, finally saw the hawk, and as I brought my binocs up to my eyes, it
flew
>deeper into the trees and disappeared never to be seen again (in the next
half
>hour, at least).
>
>While I was at the Island, I witnessed some illegal shooting. At the time,
I
>was on the cross-island dike trail (where I *saw* two VIRGINIA RAIL), and I
>heard some shooting coming from the barn. With my scope I watched two men,
one
>with a gun, standing at the end of the barn trail shooting in random
>directions, apparently just to see the ducks fly. They were *not* in
hunting
>garb, and while I know next to nothing about firearms, I believe he had a
>pellet gun or rifle, not a shotgun. I saw the men quite well through my
scope
>and could describe them. Of course, I don't have anything useful like a
>licence plate number. Is there anyone to whom I can report this anyway?
>
>He was wearing a distinctive blue nylon jacket with a white or grey picture
of
>Alaska on the back with what appeared to be a viking ship on it, with red
and
>white sails flying over a blue ship.
>
>== Michael Hobbs
>== Kirkland WA
>== hummer at isomedia.com
>
>