Subject: Sunday Snohomish and Skagit Co
Date: Jan 23 10:48:51 2002
From: PPStark at aol.com - PPStark at aol.com
Tweeters,
Sunday, 1/20, I led a Seattle Audubon trip to the Snohomish and Skagit Flats.
Our hardy group braved cold and rain and came up with a nice assortment (68
species) of resident and wintering birds. Highlights were a Great Egret,
spotted by Sharon Davis, in the fields north of Boe Rd almost at the west end
of the road. We had good though distant looks. The bill was about 1.5x the
width of the head and the egret's overall large size was made obvious when a
harrier flew by just behind it. I spotted a Northern Mockingbird on Thomle
Rd at #7910. We were able to approach the bird as it flew back and forth
across the road and then perched cooperatively on the roof of 7910. At the
Stanwood Sewage Ponds we were surprised to find a female Long-tailed duck in
the northwest pond. It was there on 1/18 as well. There is also a Peregrine
Falcon that was seen on both days high on the top of the old smokestack by
the ponds.
Good birding,
Phyllis Stark
Renton, WA
ppstark at aol.com