Hi Tweets


Just returned from leading my monthly ELWAS walk at Juanita Bay Park, and
had a couple of new birds for the park: WESTERN MEADOWLARK, perched at the
top of a cottonwood with a few Starlings; and a EURASIAN GREEN-WINGED TEAL.
The teal was at the north end of the old bridge, on the shoreline, with
several other Green-wings.

Other highlights:
MERLIN
flying through over the boardwalks.
PILEATED WOODPECKER
female.
HAIRY WOODPECKER
male.
Dozens of swallows
mostly VIOLET-GREEN and some TREE.
VARIED THRUSH
still a few around, singing.
The partial-albino RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD, which returned in early February
for the 3rd year, seemed to get ?lucky? with several females. His
territory, the same as last year, is in the cattails between the two
boardwalks. He?s really a beautiful bird.
The WOOD DUCKS are starting to come out of hiding, but the ranks of the
other species of ducks are thinning.

48 species for the morning.

MaryFrances Mathis
Kirkland
mf.mathis at verizon.net

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