Hi Tweeters:
Here is what we saw today in Juanita Bay- early afternoon 4/20/04

Bald Eagle- 1 mature, 1 immature

Cinnamon Teal- pair- GLORIOUS

Gadwall- pair

2 male Mallards

1 pair of Pied- Billed Grebe

Coots

24-Double-Crested Coromorants

GBH- flying and being chased by a couple of red-wing males

Song Sparrows

Red Wing Blackbirds- many

Marsh Wrens- many calling- saw 1 building a nest

American Crows, Robins

Ruddy Ducks, Buffleheads, Lesser Scaup

Black Capped Chickadees

I saw a female duck that I could not identify. She had a clutch of 13 sleeping chicks. She was a large duck with very few markings. No mottled feathers on her back like the female Gadwall or Mallard. Her coloring was a pale taupish tan. She had a dark edge on her wing. Her face was a bit darker than her lighter body that gradually became ligher from her head to her legs. She had bright orange feet. No top-notch and much larger than the wood duck female. There was a white patch just above her tail and a stripe in her eye. But most of the female ducks have that same stripe.

I heard from a photographer there that the birding group had been there earlier and sighted the cinnamon teals and some wood ducks. Did you happen to see the mother and her chicks?

Nancy

Renton, WA.