Subject: [Tweeters] Wrong River - Double meal deal at the same restaurant
Date: Aug 28 14:55:08 2006
From: Rob Conway - robin_birder at hotmail.com


As Kelly McAllister kindly pointed out to me I had the wrong river - Raging,
not Rushing - I'm mid-way between Preston and Fall City on said body of
water. (Right now its the Really Restful River - Tiny Trickle - Pleasant
pools)


Rob Conway
Preston and Newcastle, WA

robin_birder at hotmail.com


>From: "Rob Conway" <robin_birder at hotmail.com>
>To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
>Subject: [Tweeters] Double meal deal at the same restaurant
>Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 04:48:19 +0000
>
>Tweets -
>
>While working in my upper field - which overlooks the Rushing River - this
>afternoon I watched a Belted Kingfisher take three small fish fly back to
>his perch preen and repeat. I heard him call and start downriver when
>suddenly, in a flash, he squawked loudly and there was a puff of feathers.
>I watched as a Northern Goshawk carried the limp Kingfisher back to the
>very branch the Kingfisher had been hunting from and proceded to eat the
>former owner. I wish I were near enough the water to see if the pieces of
>bird being dropped back into the water were consumed by fish! What a great
>day to be outside!
>
>I also had Black-throated Grey, Orange-crowned, Yellow, and a Townsends
>warbler in the trees during the day and I could hear but never saw both
>Red-eyed and Warbling Vireos and Ruffed Grouse.
>
>
>
>Rob Conway
>Preston, WA
>
>robin_birder at hotmail.com
>
>
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