Subject: [Tweeters] Brown Pelican at Spencer Island
Date: Nov 6 17:53:46 2005
From: Levine, Barron - LevineB at bsd405.org


Tweeters,
This afternoon Kate Tillotson and I saw a Brown Pelican kettling with a group of gulls west of the sewage treatment ponds at Spencer Island (NE of Everett). Also of note was a solitary Western Grebe on the 1st sewage pond to the north, one White-throated Sparrow in a large group of Fox, White-Crowned and Golden-crowned Sparrows along the hedgerows on the trail that runs along the dike southwest of the barn, and 4 Cinnamon Teal (one very brightly colored male in with 3 adult females). There were also very large #'s of waterfowl (the largest number of Ruddy Ducks that I have ever seen in one place) and gulls.
For those of you who have not visited Spencer Island recently, there has been a far amount of change. The trail to the north brakes down about 1 mile of the way around, and the trail to the south has bridges washed out, so that you can't traverse the loop in that direction either. Today the water was extremely high, covering in part the wooded boardwalk that takes off to the south from the barn. There were a couple of hunters around, but otherwise it was pretty quiet people-wise.

Barry Levine
Seattle
levineb at bsd405.org