Hi Catharine and Tweets

Within the last week I have had Canvasbacks at both Tracy Owen Station
Park (sometimes called Logboom park)at the north end of Lake Washington
in Kenmore, and at Juanita Bay Park in Kirkland. As I remember, there
were at least a dozen Cans at Tracy Owen easily visible from the end of
the floats, and easily 20 at Juanita Bay Park over on the north shore
this last Sunday.

Brian Bell
Woodinville WA
bellasoc at isomedia.com

Squeakyfiddle at aol.com wrote:

>I'm wondering about Canvasback sightings this winter. For the last 5 years
>I've been doing regular counts at points along the shore of south Lake
>Washington from Sayres Park to Pritchard Beach. Up until this year I've seen small
>groups (2+ birds) of Canvasbacks from Sayres Park to Andrew's Bay (off Seward
>Park) starting in mid-October, with peak counts in mid November (30-40+) and
>tapering off through March. So far this year the count is zero. Does anyone have
>any insight into what might be happening here? Could they just be hanging out
>somewhere else this year? I hate to think that something catastrophic has
>happened to the flock.
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>thanks,
>Catherine Alexander
>Lakewood Neighborhood
>Seattle
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