Subject: On the Duwamish - 2/05/2004
Date: Feb 5 13:31:52 2004
From: Desilvis, Denis J - denis.j.desilvis at boeing.com


12:46pm start - water level at 8.6ft
1:08pm end - water level at 8.8ft

Tweeters,
The dredging barge, which was in Turning Basin #3 this morning, isn't there now. What is here, however, is the PEREGRINE FALCON: east power tower at the south end at the top. (I saw it at the north end of the east tower yesterday at 12:55pm; it might have been there during yesterday's scan, but its location was a bit obscured from my usual Duwamish viewing point.) A RED-TAILED HAWK is on the power tower along SR 599 to the south: I'd seen a RTHA there on successive days a couple of weeks ago.

Birds seen during this scan include the following:
Canada Goose (22; of which 15 were outside the goose-exclusion area)
Gadwall (2)
Mallard (4)
Common Merganser (2: a male was south of me; a female flew by heading upriver)
Double-crested Cormorant (6)
Red-tailed Hawk
Peregrine Falcon
Glaucous-winged Gull (4)
Rock Pigeon (16)
Belted Kingfisher (rattling around)
American Crow (5)

May all your birds be identified,

Denis DeSilvis
Seattle, WA
mailto:denis.j.desilvis at boeing.com