The powerline trail direction I meant east not west.

Kathy
Roosting in Kent, near Lake Meridian
(chukarbird at yahoo dot com)


--- On Wed, 8/6/08, Kathy Andrich <chukarbird at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Kathy Andrich <chukarbird at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Tweeters] Kent Area Birding
> To: "tweet" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
> Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2008, 9:18 AM
> Hi Tweeters,
>
> Things are picking up a little in my neck of the woods.
> This morning I heard a Western Tanager as I was leaving for
> work. They have not been around my house since spring
> migration. I took a short walk before work near the Kent
> Ponds area, the powerline trail off of 64th ave S, on the
> west side the trial extends a bit west. This is a good spot
> for W. Scrub Jay, I probably saw young of the year here, a
> very gray headed bird. I saw a Western Tanager here, the
> first place I saw one in spring migration this year. Also a
> large flock of Bushtits. This weekend when I was working in
> the yard there was a large flock of Bushtits in my
> neighborhood too. I put out some suet for them but they did
> not visit.
>
> Last night I stopped back where the old Thomas ponds were
> on Frontage Rd NW off of 277th St, near Hwy 167. The open
> area between Toysmith and Corporate Express warehouse is
> probably being developed, many Caterpillar heavy equipment
> and a lot of water. This may not be as good as Thomas ponds
> was for shorebirds but there was about a dozen Killdeer, 3-4
> Least Sandpipers, a hunting Great Blue Heron, and a gorgeous
> hatch year Northern Harrier, beautiful cinnamon red breast.
> Makes one suspect that the male Northern Harrier near
> Emerald Downs helped raised some young nearby.
>
> Kathy
> Roosting in Kent, near Lake Meridian
> (chukarbird at yahoo dot com)
>
>
>
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