Subject: Killdeer on Puget Sound?
Date: Jun 24 22:09:44 2004
From: Jim B - JaysonTownsend at msn.com


Hi:



In bird identification I'm a novice at best, but I keep seeing a single bird on the shore on Ruston Way in the same area and each time I see it I ask myself - is that a Killdeer? I see this bird from time to time between The Lobster Shop and Marine Park, always either in flight or walking on the shore. It has the distinct back markings that I find for a Killdeer in Sibley's and today is the first time I got a good look at the underside of almost pure white as it banked away from me.



Do Killdeer inhabit the shores of Puget Sound or am I seeing some other bird?



My last occasion for seeing a Killdeer was a couple of years ago in a field by the public access fishing site at Ringold Springs across the Columbia from Hanford. (Have also seen the White Pelicans on the river at this site as well as many, many different birds in the trees on shore.) Have also seen and heard Killdeer while living in Eastern Washington when I could hear, but can no longer ID the song of the one on Ruston Way.



Please give me help with what I'm probably seeing.



Thanks.



Jim Brewster
Tacoma
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