Subject: Lake Sammamish State Park news
Date: Oct 30 16:09:49 2003
From: Carl Haynie - Carl.Haynie at pluggablelogic.com


Hi Tweets,

Lake Sammamish State Park near Issaquah (King Co) may be getting
a major face lift to the conceivable detriment of birdlife there.
The Issaquah Press reports: "By 2008 the park could include a
giant aquatic center equipped with giant slides, a boardwalk with
restaurants and shops, a multi-purpose sports complex, and a
corporate picnic area." Egad!! The concept will be recommended
at a Dec. 4 meeting at Rattlesnake Lake Interpretive Center near
North Bend and is open to the public.

The birding was excellent at the park this morning. A full
list follows. Two new birds were added to the checklist at
http://www.pluggablelogic.com/aves/lssp/index.html: Trumpeter
Swan and Evening Grosbeak - though I suspect over the years both
species have been recorded there before...?

In that vein, if you know of any records not on the checklist,
please let me know. As a case in point, I'm still looking for
gallinaceous critters (I've had both quail and pheasant within
a mile of the park).

10/30/2003, 7:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
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1 GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE - an especially small-looking
("Tundra"?) juv. walking with large Canadas
175 Canada Goose
20 TRUMPETER SWAN - low fly-by of mostly adults, vocalizing
4 Gadwall
4 American Wigeon
25 Mallard
7 Northern Shoveler
5 Green-winged Teal
20 Lesser Scaup
5 Bufflehead
6 Hooded Merganser
2 Common Merganser
1 Pied-billed Grebe
30 Western Grebe
2 Double-crested Cormorant
2 Great Blue Heron
1 Cooper's Hawk
3 Red-tailed Hawk
200 American Coot
8 Killdeer
30 Mew Gull
20 Ring-billed Gull
30 California Gull
3 Herring Gull
15 Glaucous-winged Gull
2 Belted Kingfisher
4 Downy Woodpecker
2 Hairy Woodpecker
2 Northern Flicker
1 NORTHERN SHRIKE (imm) - in the back end of park
4 Steller's Jay
25 American Crow
20 Black-capped Chickadee
2 Chestnut-backed Chickadee
3 Bewick's Wren
3 Winter Wren
15 Marsh Wren
10 Golden-crowned Kinglet
10 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
8 American Robin
45 European Starling
3 Cedar Waxwing
10 Yellow-rumped Warbler
1 Townsend's Warbler
6 Spotted Towhee
20 Fox Sparrow
18 Song Sparrow
1 Dark-eyed Junco
20 Red-winged Blackbird
15 House Finch
2 Pine Siskin
2 American Goldfinch
2 EVENING GROSBEAK - vocalizing fly-bys

Cheers and Good Birding,

Carl Haynie
Sammamish, WA
http://www.pluggablelogic.com/aves/lssp/index.html
Carl dot Haynie AT pluggablelogic dot com