Mary and Tweeters;
I used to live by Juanita Bay Park and visited the park frequently to birdwatch. It has a wonderful duck population. I remember on one occasion in about 1997, as we were standing on the far right dock, a male woodduck flew up on the railing and walked right up to me. I reached out and gave him a pet. It was shocking (and thrilling as well) because I always thought of them as timid. I have never experienced such a tame wild duck. It must be that people there are hand feeding them. Are they still as tame as they used to be and is hand feeding still a problem? Are the wood ducks still nesting in the area?
Nancy
Renton, WA.

Birds just like to have fun!!!

----- Original Message -----
From: MaryFrances Mathis
To: Tweeters Posting
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 12:57 PM
Subject: Juanita Bay Park


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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