Subject: [Tweeters] Report from Pump Station No. 12
Date: Feb 18 12:14:00 2007
From: Mike Ullmann - mikeu1 at mindspring.com



During Saturday's brief visit from spring we drove down to the Soos Creek
trail, one of our "usual" places during the seven years we lived in Kent.
Birding was not especially productive until we followed a
still-under-construction trail north from the Gary Grant parking lot and
took a right turn that landed us in a clearing, the site of the Soos Creek
Sewer District's Pump Station No. 12. During the next half-hour (by now it
was mid-morning) things picked up considerably. The highlight was a lengthy
visit from a Red-breasted Sapsucker working over the trees immediately in
front of us by the creek.

Other species: Canada Goose, American Wigeon, Mallard, Hooded Merganser,
Bald Eagle (2), Red-tailed Hawk (2), Downy Woodpecker, Northern Flicker,
Steller's Jay, Black-capped Chickadee, Bushtit, Brown Creeper, Bewick's
Wren, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, American Robin, Song Sparrow, Red-winged
Blackbird, House Sparrow.

Where's Pump Station 12? Walk the new and spacious asphalt trail north from
the parking lot off S.E. 212th Street until the sign that says "Trail
Closed -- detour." The detour takes you almost directly across a street,
where the trail continues. Don't follow it; instead take the first right
down an old asphalt road a few hundred feet to the pump station clearing.
(The station itself is behind a chain-link fence.)

Mike Ullmann
Maple Leaf, Seattle.

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