Subject: [Tweeters] Common Redpoll at Discovery Park
Date: Dec 31 06:54:34 2006
From: Scott Hoskin - bludog66 at comcast.net
Sorry for the late posting. Yesterday 12/30/06 during the Seattle
CBC. Myself, Lucy Boyle, John Rahr and Sue Thompson (sorry if I
botched the names) encountered a single Common Redpoll among a flock
of 30 or so Pine Siskins. The bird was seen at approximately 11:00am
for about five minutes. It, along with the siskins, was feeding in
alder trees and drinking from a drain hole out of the concrete wall
of the waste treatment plant. To reach the area walk along the North
Beach trail heading east away from the West Point Lighthouse past the
small wetlands on the south side of the trail. There are numerous
alders in between the trail and the treatment plant to the south.
Prior to seeing the Redpoll we had two other flocks of siskins and
American Goldfinches so the CORE could be with any of them. Another
good bird out in the bay to the north was a single Brandt's Cormorant.
Cheers and Happy New Year!
Scott E. Hoskin
Ballard, WA
bludog66 at comcast.net
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