Hi Tweeters,
Yesterday during the very lovely wind and rain storm I dragged my husband to
golden gardens to look for birds and get a nice walk in the wind. Most of
the birds were hiding very well. There were some glaucous winged gulls that
I took a plastic baggy away from that held what looked like someones
crabbing bait...they scolded me but I told them plastic wasn't good for them
and variousother adult and immature gulls which still leave me scratching
my head. Also saw four turns...unfortunatley I can't say which...with that
wind to their backs they were out of my view to the north before i could
pull the binocs out of my jacket. However the ducks were friendly and
there were quite the variety of hybrids. One duck really has me stumped..
i don't see anything like it in the books...not even domestic ducks. It was
about the size of a widgeon and the whole body was irridescent dark purple
and blue...almost black...the head was like the green of a mallards but
darker. The feet were a murky greyish yellow. The bill looked like a
mallards except some extra dark lines on it. Any ideas?

I wonder what this storm will blow in....

Happy birding,

Maurie Kirschner, Seattle WA
maurieckirschnerATcomcast.net