Subject: [Tweeters] Bohemian Waxwings - Issaquah - King County
Date: Jan 6 02:54:40 2008
From: Rob Conway - robin_birder at hotmail.com



Tweets,

This morning I ran some errands around Issaquah and as always took some time to do some birding along the way. As I was leaving the parking lot at Fred Meyer (East Lake Sammamish Parkway and Black Nugget Road) I saw a group of birds fly away from one of my favorite "birdy" storm retention ponds on Black Nugget Road just off the Parking lot for the Fred Meyer complex right where the road heads steeply up the hill. I recognized the birds as Waxwings immediately and they flew straight up the street in the direction I was going. Near the top of the hill the birds settled in a group of crabapple trees right at the side of the road in the middle of the over dense condo complex. I pulled into a parking lot and scanned the birds with bino's - There were at least 3 Bohemian Waxwings in the flock of 26-27 birds that never really settled - moving constantly in the trees and flying up at loud traffic noise.

A nice way to essentially end my 2007-2008 winter birding in Washington - I'm off to France and Belgium until May with some brief return trips in between. I'm looking forward to Europe in the spring - something I have yet to experience from a birding perspective.

Cheers

Rob Rob Conway Preston / Fall City, WAlatitude 47 32' 20" , longitude -121 54' 42" robin_birder at hotmail.com
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