Hey, Dave & Tweeters:

I too had my first singing Hutton's Vireo from our property in n. Lake
Stevens Saturday the 10th, just few miles east of where you were at Lake
Cassidy, there was also one Evebeak and a continuing Townsend's Warbler
which has been present all winter. I ought to know about the ducks at
Cassidy but don't.

The family took a drive up through Skagit County yesterday, nothing notable
but I had a pair of overwintering Wood Ducks and a Slate-col. Junco at the
seldom-visited Milltown access to the Skagit WMA. An early-blooming Indian
Plum (Oemleria cerasiformis) was also there. A gorgeous day to be out.

Scott Atkinson
Lake Stevens
email: scottratkinson at hotmail.com


>From: "David Beaudette" <drtbrdr at earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: drtbrdr at earthlink.net
>To: "Tweeters Messages" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
>Subject: Snohomish County Birding
>Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 17:36:16 -0800
>
>Greetings,
>
>Field trip report for 11 February 2001, Snohomish County.
>
>Seen at Priest Point, west of Marysville:
>6 Killdeer, 1 Greater Yellowlegs, 1 Lesser Yellowlegs, 1 Spotted Sandpiper.
>
>Seen from the Boat Launch at Lake Cassidy and later at the Catherine Creek
>wetland and NW Wildfowl Farm just south of the lake along 54 St NE-street
>sign also calls it 54 Pl NE. Delorme Atlas P 95, D-8:
>1 male American Black Duck, 1 female hybrid American Black Duck-Mallard,
>with a small group of Mallards. An additional hybrid may also be present. I
>spoke with Paul Dye, who owns the NW Wildfowl Farm.He keeps 6 American
>Black Ducks on his farm but these are not his. Rather they are a small
>population that moved in from somewhere else . I am presuming that this is
>a remant of the Everett population. Everett is just a few miles away and
>only a few hybrids are present there. Anyone have past info on Lake Cassidy
>American Black Ducks?
>
>Seen at the nearby Corson Natural Area:
>3 Hutton's Vireos, two of these were singing. 1 Evening Grosbeak. 1
>Pileated Woodpecker working on a red alder snag. This bird a female [black
>mustache, black on the forecrown} with somewhat brownish wing coverts that
>have thin abraided palish edges. I wonder if this is a first winter bird?
>Also a Ruffed Grouse was spied as it was moved very slowly in deciduous
>woodland at the edge of a small meadow.
>A gorgeous day to be out and about.
>
>Good Birding,
>David Beaudette

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