Subject: [Tweeters] Renton/Kent (King Co.) this morning
Date: Jan 28 14:31:23 2006
From: Michael Hobbs - birdmarymoor at verizon.net


Tweets - I was on a field trip for Mike Donahue's Immature Gulls class this
morning, then I headed down to the Boeing Ponds afterwards. We had wind,
rain, thunder and lightning, hard rain, and really hard rain, so it could
have been better from the weather perspective.

At the mouth of the Cedar River in Renton we had few gulls, though there
were at least a couple of HERRING GULLS and a THAYER'S. The excitement
there, though, was a complete set of grebes - we had one CLARK'S GREBE with
a bunch of Westerns to the west of the Cedar river mouth, and one EARED
GREBE right close in by the kayak building. It took some searching, but
Marv Breece found a RED-NECKED GREBE almost all the way to Mercer Island.
Horned Grebes were all about, and there was a Pied-billed when we arrived.

In Tukwilla, on the roof of the YELLOW truck center (viewed from the
ambulance center off Gateway Dr. next door), we had about 40 THAYER'S GULLS,
including some juveniles to scope through.

I then headed down to the Boeing Ponds - well, actually just southwest of
the ponds themselves to *the* spot at the corner of 59th and 212th - and
quickly found the ICELAND GULL. The only drawback was gusty winds and
torrential rain. Bumped into Steve Gerstle and Brad Waggoner there, and
they wouldn't even get out of their car. I tried for the Tufted Duck around
the corner, but had no luck there.

Still, for a terrible morning, it was pretty good.

== Michael Hobbs
== Kirkland, WA
== http://www.scn.org/fomp/birding.htm
== birdmarymoor at verizon.net