Subject: [Tweeters] Bird ID help
Date: Apr 6 11:52:13 2006
From: Rolan Nelson - rnbuffle at yahoo.com


Eric,

They're Killdeer allright. They commonly feed on lawns and fields at night, preying on nocturnal insects.

-Rolan

Eric dePlace <edeplace at gmail.com> wrote:
I live in Ballard across the street from a ball field. Sometimes after dark I hear a high-pitched whining cry that sounds to me like a killdeer. (Admittedly, I'm a rank amateur). Last night I went looking for the bird and saw what appeared to be a pair of killdeer, or at least some kind of "plover-ish" birds, foraging in the grass. I had no flashlight so getting a positive ID based on the birds' markings was impossible. So my questions are
Is it common (or probable) that killdeer would occupy urban terrain at night? Could they have been a different species? (And, if so, what?) What food source might they find in a lawn?

Many thanks,

Eric de Place
Seattle , Washington
edeplace AT gmail.com
_______________________________________________
Tweeters mailing list
Tweeters at u.washington.edu
http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters



Rolan Nelson
Fircrest, WA
rnbuffle at yahoo.com

---------------------------------
New Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Call regular phones from your PC and save big.