Subject: [Tweeters] I'm not crazy
Date: Apr 15 18:27:08 2008
From: Constance Sidles - constancesidles at gmail.com


Hey tweets, remembering Stuart MacKay's dictim to hie ye down to the
Fill directly after a rain storm, I parked my car in the downpour and
waited for the rain to quit. It did for a short time around 2 p.m., and
sure enough all the birds came out in a rush (I'm listing only my most
favorite ones below):

In the glade east of the greenhouses:
Orange-crowned Warbler
Steller's Jay
CALIFORNIA QUAIL (!!! - flew off to the field south of the CUH, then
headed further west; I couldn't keep up with it - last heard probably
near the methane burner in the former bramble bush field just east of
where the old wooden bridge used to be)

At the point:
Northern Rough-winged Swallow (2 amidst the hordes of swallows coursing
the lake as far as the eye could see)
Cliff Swallow
RED-BREASTED MERGANSER (!!!: one obligingly faced me with its
gray/whitish breast pointed right at me only 40 feet away, raised
itself half out of the water and flapped its wings; then turned and
leisurely fished its way to join up with the largish flock of Common
Mergansers in Union Bay)
Osprey

On the main pond:
Dunlin (2)

Walking back to the car with floppy hat soaked and way too floppy:
Lincoln's Sparrow

I'm going to sit in front of my heater now. My fingers are looking a
little blue. - Connie, Seattle

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