Subject: [Tweeters] REDHEAD - Snoqualmie Valley
Date: Dec 16 15:18:47 2007
From: Richard Carlson - rccarl at pacbell.net


We had 5!! Redheads at that spot yesterday on the
Marymoor Christmas count. Darn, we missed the 5
Goshawks.

Dick


--- johntubbs at comcast.net wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> On a quick trip through the Snoqualmie Valley
> between Carnation and Fall City today, I came across
> a pair of REDHEAD ducks. Redheads are pretty
> unusual on this side of the mountains in my
> experience, so I was pleased to find them. They
> were located in a flooded field near the Jubilee
> Farm. The field is right by the road, just south of
> "East Main Street" - which is really just a little
> E-W jog in West Snoqualmie River Road between Tall
> Chief Golf Course and Carnation Marsh. In that
> field, which is always very good for ducks once it
> floods for the duration of the winter, were probably
> 80 Mallards, 6 NORTHERN PINTAIL (with which the
> Redheads were associating) and a couple of
> Buffleheads.
>
> [Oh, yes, and I did see six or seven Goshawks -
> amazingly, once I realized I had been overlooking
> them forever, they just started to appear
> everywhere! (Just kidding, just kidding!!)]
>
> John Tubbs
> Snoqualmie, WA
> johntubbs at comcast.net
> www.tubbsphoto.com>
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Richard Carlson
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