Subject: Bird ID
Date: Jun 7 14:22:20 2004
From: Ruth Sullivan - godwit at worldnet.att.net


Hello Carol,

There been many Lazuli Buntings sighted in the Kent Ponds in the past.This was before the Kent Ponds got changed where we had high count on rarities .Including a Rustic Bunting in 1987 and also in 1989 found by Dave Beaudette.Stilt Sandpipers ,Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Ruff also found at this location.Franklin Gull, Many Great Egret,Yellow -breasted Chat ,Eastern Kingbirds and the list can go on.Caro I believe this is before you got started in birding if I am right.The Kent ponds never got attracted many rarities after it got converted.This was a HOT SPOT for so many birders in King County.


Cheers

Ruth Sullivan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lynn Schulz" <linusq at worldnet.att.net>
To: "tweeters at u. washington. edu (E-mail)" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: Bird ID


> Hi Mike and All:
> This is very interesting. It may be a Lazuli Bunting. Nita Fulwiler
> reported a pair at Kent Ponds a week ago. See her msg below. I don't
> remember reports of Lazuli's in the past at Kent Ponds, but will ask
> if they have been seen there in past summers.
> Most of you know that Kent Ponds is located just south of S 212th in
> Kent, WA. Riverview Marsh (Pond) is across the Green River to the SW
> of Kent Ponds. Cross the foot bridge over the river, and walk south
> about 1 block on Frager Rd to enter the public path to it under the
> power lines. There is a grown-over path all the way around it, a
> total of about 1/2 mile. Virginia Rails are on the south side of it
> in the cattails.
> Yours, Carol Schulz
> DesMoines, WA
> mailto:linusq at att.net
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Mulcahy" <mmulcahy at micro-flex.com>
> To: "tweeters at u. washington. edu (E-mail)" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
> Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 12:36 PM
> Subject: Bird ID
>
>
> | Birding at the Kent ponds yesterday we found a bird on the East side
> fence
> | which we described as a 6-7" in length, dark gray or gray/blue head,
> medium
> | fine dark bill, no visible eye ring, rusty orange chest fading to
> light gray
> | on the belly and flanks with A DISTINCTIVE WHITE WING STRIPE. The
> bird
> | looked a great deal like the drab adult western bluebird shown in
> the Sibley
> | guide for Western North America on page 343. The call was a single
> down/up
> | whistle and the bird was very active constantly flying between
> bushes and
> | the fence. It must have been a western bluebird but none of our
> guides show
> | bluebirds with wing stripes. Is there any stage of growth or
> molting when
> | bluebirds show wing stripes?
> |
> | Mike Mulcahy
> | Burien, WA
> ---------------
> >From Nita Fulwiler, Mon, May 31, 2004
> Dear Carol,
> I was birding at the Riverview Pond and the Kent Ponds this morning.
> At the Kent pond area just at the first observation tower between
> Russell Road and 64th, but on the south side of the path near the
> industrial building with the address on the door marked 5710, I
> spotted a pair of lazuli buntings. I've lived in the Riverview
> community 4 years now and this is the first time I've seen these here.
> I first heard the male - not singing, but calling - and stopped
> because it was not a familiar sound to me. The female was just
> sitting on top of a blackberry vine and stayed there for more than
> five minutes while I watched the male flitting back and forth from the
> blackberry vine to the grasses, while making his little call note.
> Talk about feeling like I stumbled on a real sighting! But I also
> realize it may not be so unusual for this area, I just haven't seen
> them here before.
>
> Also a note of interest: Above the Riverview Pond in the huge fir
> just off the path, I saw a female Bullock's oriole. I first heard her
> chatter as I was pishing to see if I could call out the wren or the
> fox sparrow that have been in this spot. I saw a pair of orioles a
> couple years ago only down in one of the cottonwoods. But the
> red-wing's were harrassing them so much they flew off. I've seen
> orioles nesting in the firs at Ft. Steilacoom so maybe they will do
> this here too.
>
> Could you let me know regarding the lazuli's; if this is unusual or
> not?
> Thanks.
> Sincerely,
> Nita Fulwiler
>