Subject: Belted Kingfishers
Date: Aug 5 20:43:15 2002
From: Cliff Drake - cliff at cliffdrake.net


Hi Tweets,

Bird-wise and fish-wise the Ballard Locks were pretty dull this morning
except for seven (!) Belted Kingfishers flying and rattling all over the
place. I was able to ID the resident male, "Old flat top" (he never shows a
crest and he's been there at least five years.) an adult female, and one
juvenile. The rest were too fast for me, it was quite a show, and darned
loud at times. How many kids do BEKI usually have?

I don't think I've ever seen seven Kingfishers at one time before...

Cliff Drake
Seattle WA
cliff at cliffdrake.net