Hi Tweets,

Today several SAS Master Birder class members showed up in cool, cloudy,
breezy weather to lead a walk around Lincoln Park. Multitudes didn't
materialize, perhaps because of the weather. So after a delicious warm
scone baked by Steve Dang we set off more-or-less spontaneously to bird the
park, all the while commiserating with each other about the Master Birder
exam that was still afflicting us all.

The birding had some highpoints: 5 male Western Tanagers trooping through
the treetops together; Yellow, Townsend's, and Black-throated Gray warblers
darting about in the Madrona trees; a Cooper's Hawk overhead pursued by a
crow; a Bald Eagle pair perched and circling about a possible nest site, and
a pair of Band-tailed Pigeons searching for a nest site in dense low trees.
After about 90 minutes we split up and five of us went over to the lookout
at the top of Admiral Way, where we watched through a scope while a mother
Red-tailed Hawk fed remains of what was probably a Green Heron to her two
downy chicks -- cute and gross at the same time. A hundred yards to the
left on the top of a Douglas Fir a Scrub Jay watched the action at the
Red-tail nest for a couple of minutes, the first time any of us had seen
this species in Seattle.

Green Heron (probable -- deceased, dismembered, digested)
Cooper's Hawk
Bald Eagle
Red-tailed Hawk (Seen at Admiral Way viewpoint)
Glaucous-winged Gull
Band-tailed Pigeon
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker (heard)
Western Wood-Pewee (heard)
Steller's Jay (heard)
Western Scrub-Jay (seen at Admiral Way viewpoint)
American Crow
Hutton's Vireo
Warbling Vireo
American Robin
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Bewick's Wren
Winter Wren
Bushtit
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Black-capped Chickadee
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Pine Siskin
Yellow Warbler
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Townsend's Warbler
Spotted Towhee (heard)

Paul Webster
Seattle
paul.webster at attbi.com