Although unable to see whether a male or a female ( didn't have my bins with me this morning), I heard a kingfisher rattle when walking through the park near the mouth of Longfellow Creek, near the 24 Hour Fitness off Delridge in West Seattle. Also saw one dead salmon in the creek, and spoke with a gentleman who walks the creek daily and saw a live salmon minutes earlier.

On monthly bird monitoring forays with People For Puget Sound, monitoring sites along the Duwamish, we frequently get kingfisher sightings. Will report later what we see/hear this Sunday morning.

Brett A. Wolfe
Seattle, WA
gismybabe at yahoo.com



Brew <BrewsHome at thewiredcity.net> wrote:

Hi:



Believe that at one time someone in the Seattle area was keeping a log of Belted Kingfisher sightings. Also remember that "winter" sightings of females in the Puget Sound area were rather unusual, so don't know whether or not my sighting this morning of a female Belted Kingfisher is normal or not. This bird sat on the tallest pilling in the group between The Lobster Shop and Marine Park on Ruston Way in Tacoma for at least half an hour during the time I watched it. Had a good profile and the burnt orange on the chest was prominent. Then west of the Lobster Shop saw a Belted Kingfisher in flight but couldn't ID the sex. Also on my return walk past the pilling where the female had been, there were three Belted Kingfishers flying together just above the surface of the water, the most that I've seen in that area at one time.



In the same time frame saw three Bonaparte's Gulls in the water just off the dock by the pillings and that is where I've seen one or two in the past. This is where last week I saw a Franklin's Gull in flight with about six Mew Gulls but haven't seen it since then. They were flying together against a strong wind and no more than 20-30 feet away from the end of the dock so got a good look at it and from Sibley's determined that it was a Franklin's Gull. After many years of having a casual interest in trying to identify birds I see on my walks, have finally started a birding class given by the Tahoma Audubon and mentioned this sighting to the instructor who said it was a "possible" but couldn't confirm it. I walk that area quite often and haven't seen the Franklin's Gull since last weeks sighting.



Jim Brewster
Tacoma
BrewsHome at thewiredcity.net

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