Subject: [Tweeters] Clay-colored Sparrow and Short-tailed Shearwater on
Date: Nov 15 20:40:42 2005
From: Rachel Lawson - RachelLawson at softhome.net
Hi everyone,
Today, Penny Koyama, Steve Dang, and I had a great day of birding on
Whidbey Island. The most notable birds were at Freeland Park, in
Freeland, at the end of Holmes Harbor. In the vegetation to the right
of the restrooms, we found one CLAY-COLORED SPARROW with a small flock
of GOLDEN-CROWNED and WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS. Then, very bizarrely, we
saw two adult BALD EAGLES chasing one SHORT-TAILED SANDPIPER out over
the water. They flew back and forth several times, with the eagles only
a few feet behind the shearwater, until they went out of view behind the
buildings. The eagles came back and landed on the dock, but we couldn't
relocate the shearwater. Pretty weird!
Rachel Lawson
Seattle
rachellawson at softhome.net