Tweets, and especially King Co. listers,

At 5:20 p.m. Gene's Forster's Terns were still at Logboom Park. They were
sitting on the pilings at the end of the dock beyond the martin gourds.
Looks like they may be around for the evening.

Penny Koyama, Bothell
plkoyama at verizon.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eugene and Nancy Hunn" <enhunn323 at comcast.net>
To: "'tweeters'" <Tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 3:54 PM
Subject: RE: [Tweeters] Forster's Terns at Kenmore Logboom Park


> Tweets,
>
> I just watched two adult Forster's Terns feeding over the lake at Kenmore
> Logboom Park. On two occasions they came over very close in. Called "keek,
> keek" which appears not to be distinctive of the species, but large,
> silvery
> white upper wings without darkening of the primaries above; tail appeared
> to
> lack dark outer webs of outer tail feathers and to show light gray on the
> interior of the tail. Bill of one at least was orange with a black tip,
> rather long. Some primary molt I believe. This was at 3:30 PM. Also there
> were about six Purple Martins including one pair of adults feeding young
> in
> the gourd.
>
> Gene Hunn
> 18476 47th Pl NE
> LAKE Forest Park, WA
> enhunn323 at comcast.net
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