Subject: Safeco bird list
Date: Apr 26 09:19:59 2002
From: Desilvis, Denis J - denis.j.desilvis at boeing.com


Hal and Tweeters
My Safeco Field list is very similar, with few differences (not in taxonomic
order):
Osprey
House Sparrow
Bald Eagle
European Starling
Glaucous-winged Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Mew Gull
Rock Dove
Violet-Green Swallow
Barn Swallow
Common Crow
Red-tailed Hawk (just added Wed evening)

I also had a warbler (spp?) last Fall, as well as a bat (spp?) one evening
late last summer. My first bird at the Safe was an Osprey, which cruised
through the stadium about a week before it first opened in 1999.

Denis DeSilvis
denis.j.desilvis at boeing.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Hal Opperman [mailto:hal at catharus.net]
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 9:06 AM
To: tweeters
Subject: Re: Safeco bird list


I was at that same game last Sunday and added two birds to my
(ball)yard list: swan sp. (sorry, flying too high to call) and
Red-tailed Hawk. That makes eleven, with nine previously seen: Bald
Eagle, California Gull, Glaucous-winged Gull, Rock Dove, American
Crow, Violet-green Swallow, Barn Swallow, European Starling, and
House Sparrow.

What are your ten, Alan? Anybody else?

I don't count birds seen from the terraces looking out away from the
stadium -- only those within the footprint of the stadium or visible
in the sky from field level. You could get up there on the third
level terrace overlooking Elliott Bay and really pick 'em off if
they'd let you bring a scope and tripod into the park.

Hal Opperman
Medina, Washington
hal at catharus.net