Today about 12:15 pm we saw a banded American Crow at the Mountlake Fill. I did not know anyone was banding crows (and don't know why they would want to), and have no idea where to report this, so I thought I'd post it to Tweeters.

The right leg was an Orange band above a Grey band, and the left leg was an Orange & Yellow band above a Grey band.

Other than that, we saw a lot of what Connie reported earlier today (27 of her 41 species), plus a couple she did not report. Starling were there, but only a few. There was a Juvenile Red-tailed Hawk working the main Fill area, flying from tree to tree and lighting in one tree for only a few minutes at a time. It made one strike attempt in the reeds near the lake, but without success.

About a half dozen White-crowned Sparrows that were hiding from Connie were behind the Center for Urban Horticulture as well as a Bewick's Wren, a Golden-crowned Sparrow, and a couple of Ruby-crowned Kinglets in the same area.

Mark Sullivan, Seattle


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