Hi Tweets -
This evening I made a drive down to look for the Black-necked Stilt
found by Michael earlier today. It was still present as of 7:00pm at
the same spot.

In the fields just north of Smith Brothers' Dairy, 3 Black-bellied
Plovers in sharp breeding plumage were sitting out in the field -
presumably the same spot where Charlie Wright reported them earlier
this week.

On Frager Rd., just south of the SR516 overpass, 5 Mountain Bluebirds
were dodging raindrops.

At dusk, in between showers, I tried for the Western Kingbird at
204th , but had no luck.

Nevertheless, quite a nice way to end the day!

Best,

Matt Bartels
Seattle, WA


>Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:09:26 -0700
>From: "Michael Hobbs" <birdmarymoor at verizon.net>
>To: "Tweeters \(E-mail\)" <TWEETERS at u.washington.edu>
>
>
>Tweets - I was doing a morning's birding in south King County and
>found several nice birds.
>
>At Emerald Downs, there was a BLACK-NECKED STILT, at the north end
>of the pond that's visible from M St. Also present there were
>dowitchers, Least Sandpipers, quite possibly some
>Semipalmated Sandpipers (but I couldn't be 100% sure), and a
>Eurasian Wigeon. The stilt was still present when I left at 1:45.
>
>The Western Kingbird that was reported yesterday was still at 204th
>St. in Kent.
>
>I had 3 Mountain Bluebirds on Frager east of the scrub-jay spot (and Western
>Scrub-Jay *at* the scrub-jay spot).
>
>At Eagle Landing Park in Burien I had a singing Pacific-slope Flycatcher.
>
>4 county year birds, one of which was a county lifer. Not a bad half-day of
>birding.
>
>== Michael Hobbs
>== Kirkland, WA
>== http://www.marymoor.org/birding.htm
>== birdmarymoor at verizon.net
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