Subject: [Tweeters] GREEN HERON at Work Location
Date: Jun 20 07:19:33 2007
From: johntubbs at comcast.net - johntubbs at comcast.net


Hi Mark,

There is (limited) public access - the issue being parking. Parking permits are required for the general lot, but there are some visitors spaces. I'll send you (and others if interested) info off-list.

John Tubbs
Snoqualmie, WA
johntubbs at comcast.net
www.tubbsphoto.com

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From: Mark Wensnahan <reganw at rockisland.com>
Hi John,

Is this a location that is accessible to the public. If so, where is it?

Thanks, Mark

At 6/19/2007, johntubbs at comcast.net wrote:

Hi All,

Last year when we moved into our new work building on Willows Road in Redmond, there was a young Green Heron that would hunt almost daily from two perches in a small retention pond by our building. His hunting location was no more than 25 feet from our parking lot, but he was so well camouflaged that I doubt anyone else who worked there even knew he was there as a regular. Then the landlord "improved" the pond by cutting down a lot of sheltering brush that had grown up around the edges - part of the bird's hiding screen - and I saw the bird only a handful of times the rest of the season. I doubted he would be back this year.

Although the pond edges still are not regrown as they were, the reeds in the pond and some edge grasses have started to hide his favorite hunting perches again. And...a week ago a very handsome Green Heron started showing up regularly and hasn't missed a day yet. He hunts in the same two locations where I could always find him last year. I have no way of knowing if this is the same bird, of course, but I would wager that there is a good chance it is the same bird back hanging out at his old haunt. It's nice to see a shy species like this successfully hunting in a business park.

The following link - http://www.tubbsphoto.com/-/tubbsphoto/detail.asp?photoID=4055132&cat=38973 - was taken today (Tuesday). Last year's young bird is shown at http://www.tubbsphoto.com/-/tubbsphoto/detail.asp?photoID=2835830&cat=38973 .

John Tubbs
Snoqualmie, WA
johntubbs at comcast.net
www.tubbsphoto.com

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