Subject: [Tweeters] RE: Belted Kinfishers
Date: May 1 08:03:42 2005
From: Arthur Berman - aberman at telus.net


I was at a retreat at Rainbow Lodge in North Bend, WA earlier this week
and was walking a trail behind the lodge (at the foot of Mt. Si) when a
belted Kingfisher flew right by my head in full call! They sure look a
lot bigger that close. Peak experience, no pun intended.

Later in the day I was reading outside with a diet beverage on a planter
near me. A rufus hummingbird whizzed by and took a quick sip from the
drink, discovered it had no sugar and flew off in disdain never to be
seen again.

Arthur Berman
North Vancouver, BC