A group of birders from Lake Forest Park regularly visit this
site.......North Creek Park, and the name of the creek
is....surprise....North Creek! We have never seen Tricolored Blackbirds
there (Red-winged are common) over several years of observations. It is a
great place for Virginia Rails though. It is west on 183rd SE from SR527
(the Bothell-Everett Highway).

Roger Olstad
Lake Forest Park

> From: birdbooker at zipcon.net
> Reply-To: birdbooker at zipcon.net
> Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 14:24:14 -700
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: Bothell Tricolored Blackbirds
>
> HI:
> I got this e-mail about Tricolored Blackbirds a few years ago in Bothell, WA:
>
> I was tracking these birds when I lived in Bothell a few years ago. I did not
> report them because I did not know about tweeters. Otherwise I would have.
>
> Have you ever been to North Creek park in Bothell? It is a Snohomish Co. creek
> bottom land (I forget exactly what creek it is at the moment) just south of
> Mill Creek. I tracked a small population of red-wing BB's (approx. 75
> individuals) across the area and they landed in NC park. While I was
> collecting data I noticed that some of them were not red-wings, but Tricolors.
> My first assumption was that they were juvenile red-wings, but after taking
> some photos and comparing them back to known red-wings, I ID'd them as
> Tricolors. There were about 15 specific individuals that I documented that
> trip. As I continued to go the the park, I would notice that the tricolors
> were there whenever the red-wings were there. I never documented the tricolors
> by themselves.
>
> As soon as I get my old computer back up and operating, I can send you the
> documented instances of the tricolors as far as dates, locations, seasons,
> etc.
>
> Does anyone know this place?
> --
> Ian Paulsen
> Bainbridge Island, WA USA
> A.K.A.:Birdbooker
> Rallidae all the way!
>