Subject: [Tweeters] Fill today
Date: Apr 28 22:09:44 2007
From: Constance Sidles - csidles at isomedia.com


Hey tweets, along with the usual suspects at the Fill today were some
notables:

CASPIAN TERN
Least sandpipers
Western sandpipers
northern rough-winged swallow
AMERICAN PIPIT

Conditions were windy and getting cold. Have you ever noticed that
cyclists out for their daily century always have the grimmest
expressions on their faces, except when it starts to rain? Then they
paste a big false smile on their faces and peddle grimly. I guess
they're following Charlie Brown's philosophy: let a smile be your
umbrella. Except that like Charlie, down deep they know that a smile is
not going to keep you dry. I think today I had that same false smile on
my face as I huddled on my camp stool trying to keep my hat from flying
off my head. Of all the conditions that make birding challenging (if
that is the right word), cold wind is the worst, don't you think? Well,
maybe fog. Okay, it's fog coupled with wind and big, tossing waves out
on a pelagic, and your ear patch isn't working.

In any case, I'm still glad I went out this afternoon. Combined with my
warbler spots of the morning at Tom Lord and the COMMON YELLOWTHROAT I
found near the dime parking lot, this was a four-warbler day. Four
warblers, it turns out, can turn a false smile into a real one. -
Connie, Seattle

csidles at isomedia.com