Subject: [Tweeters] Snoqualmie Valley birds last weekend
Date: Jan 14 12:25:36 2008
From: Eugene and Nancy Hunn - enhunn323 at comcast.net


Tweets,



I led an SAS field trip yesterday (beautiful weather) to Duvall and
Carnation, and scouted the route the previous Friday.



Friday there were 700 or so swans (ca. 650 Trumpeters, ca. 50 Tundra's, no
Whoopers or Bewick's) just north of the King County line in a field off
Crescent Lake Rd. sw of the old Monroe Prison dairy farm and the Two Rivers
WRA, and no hunters. Sunday the field was empty except for some decoys and
many hunters were in evidence. Nevertheless we found some 150 swans during
the course of the day, including on the pond at the abandoned prison dairy
farm, along the spur of w. Snoqualmie River Rd. nw of Duvall, and scattered
in fields nw of Sikes Lake and s of the Tolt River Bridge south of
Carnation. Just 3 definite Tundras, the rest Trumpeters.



There were seven Greater White-fronted and two immature Snow Geese in the
fields near Sikes Lake and the Nestle experimental farm Friday, but we
couldn't locate them Sunday, though we did spot a handful of Cacklers
amongst the 1000+ Canadas there.



Best bird of the Sunday trip was a single female Yellow-headed Blackbird in
a flock of 1000+ mostly Red-winged Blackbirds along 32nd St. just east of SR
203 just south of Carnation (same spot as for some of the swans). Also a
White-throated Sparrow Friday near the north end of the deadend of Neal Rd.,
reached off SR 203 (on the east side of the Snoqualmie River) just n of
Fall City, and a responsive Northern Pygmy-Owl at the Moss Lake Natural Area
parking lot near Lake Joy (se of Duvall and ne of Stillwater off Kelly Rd.).



Gene Hunn

18476 47th Pl. NE

Lake Forest Park, WA 98155

enhunn323 at comcast.net