Subject: Montlake Fill this morning (4/24/02)
Date: Apr 24 11:12:19 2002
From: Michael Dossett - phainopepla at yahoo.com


Hi Tweets,

Well, this morning I decided to leave the house about
45 minutes early and walk around the montlake fill a
little bit before class (one of the bad things of
having such a great place on campus is the temptation
to skip classes. Fortunately I haven't yet yielded to
this temptation this spring :-)

Anyway it was a great morning with several highlights.
The first highlight was as I was photographing a pair
of Cinnamon Teal on the Dime lot pond. I was getting
some nice shots of them when I felt something on my
shoe. I looked down and a Virginia Rail had just
walked across the toe of my shoe! It was
unbelievable! As the Rail walked a little further
away so that the close focus on my camera was no
longer inhibited by its distance, I was able to get a
few nice photos of it. While all this was going on, I
heard the distinctive song of a male Yellow-headed
Blackbird several times behind me, toward the main
pond. When I went over to the main pond I found a
second pair of Cinnamon Teal but no Yellow-headed
Blackbird. Thorough searching turned up 2 Killdeer as
the only shorebirds this morning. Right as I was
about to leave, I found the Yellow-headed Blackbird as
he started to sing at the SE corner of the fill in the
Cattails on the edge of Lake Washington.

And I made it to class on time too!

Michael Dossett
Bothell, WA
phainopepla at yahoo.com

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