Hi Tweeters,

I'm still getting around my work bird route. This
Monday an immature Green Heron visited the "beach" in
front of South Campus Center. One day last week 2
Spotted Sandpipers visited the same beach. The lake
level (and Portage Bay) level is dropping.

Papa Downy Woodpecker brought a fledgling through a
while back. Also fledgling Cedar Waxwing with parents
recently. Yesterday saw a just fledged
Glaucous-winged Gull on the bay, quite a bit of down
around the edges. A lot of Northern Flickers
around. Wednesday there were 5 out on the lawn, one
was begging. Also saw a yellow shafted flicker
sunbathe. They look drugged when they do this. She
then got up and loped my way. She had a beautiful
brown and gray pattern on her face. She was probably
an intergrade, the yellow on the shafts was more a
burnt gold than yellow. Her chest patch was a strange
shape, no red on the nape. Lot of flicker and other
feathers around, there are many molting birds right
now.

>From Sakuma Viewpoint Park (near Agua Verde
restaurant) to the Montlake bridge, along Portage Bay.
Since week of July 11 through this week:

Canada Goose
Gadwell
Mallard
Pied-billed Grebe
Great Blue Heron
Green Heron
Bald Eagle
Spotted Sandpiper
Gull sp.--some with black wingtip but no good looks
Glaucous-winged Gull
Caspian Tern
Rock Pigeon
Anna's Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
American Crow--some still fishing
Violet-green Swallow
Barn Swallow
Bushtit--molting heavily, nice apricot highlights
Bewick's Wren--still singing
American Robin
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Song Sparrow--only one!
White-crowned Sparrow--molting heavily, some tail-
less birds
Red-winged Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

Kathy
Roosting in S King County


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