Subject: [Tweeters] Sandhill Crane records, King County
Date: Dec 14 03:28:06 2005
From: Russell Rogers - rrogers at olypen.com


Here are a few more King County Sandhill Cranes from my database

1 at Kent on 10 Feb 1995 fide Thais Bock
1 flyover at Seattle on 10 Nov 1995, Ed Newbold
3 at Discovery Park on 25 Sep 1998, Kraig Kemper
1 at Kent on 4 Oct 1998, Gene Revelas
3 at Discovery Park on 14 Oct 1999, Tom Aversa


Russell
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On Dec 13, 2005, at 6:45 PM, Eugene and Nancy Hunn wrote:

> Tweets,
>
> I've summarized all the reports for Sandhills for King County I
> have heard of so far.
>
> Gene Hunn
>
> SANDHILL CRANE. Seventeen King County records, 10 securely dated.
>
> U. Hertz reported "large numbers of 'sandhill cranes' crossing
> White River Valley (near Kent) in a northerly direction in a
> continuous stream all the afternoon. Toward night they settled in a
> swampy pasture. . . . [1892?] (Jewett et al. 1953: 233).
>
> Hertz also saw a small band of cranes flying low at dusk on
> February 4,1890" (Jewett et al. 1953: 233).
>
> "On May 1, 1892, at Lake Washington, Rathbun saw a flock of 39
> cranes going over at a great height, his attention being called to
> the flock by their rolling notes" (Jewett et al. 1953: 233).
>
> M. Egger reported six in flight over Woodinville 10 May 1980
> (Seattle Audubon Newsletter).
>
> E. Ratoosh saw 1 over Magnuson Park, Seattle, on 14 September, 1980
> (Seattle Audubon Newsletter).
>
> E. Ratoosh saw 2 over the Montlake Fill, University of Washington
> campus, on 12 October 1980 (Seattle Audubon Newsletter).
>
> Hal Opperman reported 18 in flight over Medina 4 November 2000
> (Tweeters).
>
> MaryFranceis Mathis reported two at Juanita Bay Park 23 September
> 2001 (Tweeters)..
>
> Kathy Andrich and Bruce Jones report a sighting of Sandhills over
> the Boeing Ponds in 2001 (Tweeters).
>
> John Friars saw 1 over his house on Vashon Island in September 2002
> (Swan 2005:157).
>
> Bob Seibold reported 1 behind the K2 plant on Vashon Island
> sometime during the fall of 2002 (Swan 2005:157).
>
> Brett Wolfe reported them over the Green River Natural Resource
> Area during the fall of 2002 (Tweeters).
>
> Peter Murray reported 3 over the Vashon Island golf course 13
> October 2003 (Swan 2005:157).
>
> Alan Bauer reported 1 Sandhill Crane in a field 2 miles nw of Fall
> City 8 December 2005; the bird was relocated 10 December by Eugene
> & Nancy Hunn and Brien Meilleur, then seen the 11th by Brian Bell
> and the 13th by Marv Breece (Tweeters).
>
> Joe Van Os reported having seen ?small flocks? over his house on
> Maury Island at some unspecified date (Swan 2005:157; fide Dennis
> Paulson, Tweeters).
>
> Roger Orness reported seeing Sandhill Cranes in the Kent Valley at
> some unspecified date (fide Brett Wolfe, Tweeters).
>
> A neighbor of Kathy Andrich reported seeing 3 at the Maplewood Golf
> Course at Cavanaugh during fall or early winter of some unspecified
> year (fide Kathy Andrich, Tweeters).
>
> Compiled 13 December 2005 by Eugene Hunn.
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