Subject: [Tweeters] Vashon Island birds today
Date: Jan 25 19:41:20 2008
From: Eugene and Nancy Hunn - enhunn323 at comcast.net


Tweets,



Following up on a possible Yellow-billed Loon off Alki Point in West Seattle
I set off to see what I might see.



No sign there or elsewhere along the West Seattle shoreline of any
suspicious loons, but a number of Red-throateds, four Pacifics just south of
Duwamish head (which have been there for three weeks now), and a couple of
Common Loons. One EARED GREBE in the bay near the Fauntleroy Ferry dock was
nice. I decided to take the ferry to Vashon in hopes of locating the
Long-tailed

Ducks reported off and on there in Tramp Harbor. No luck with them but I did
spot an juvenile YELLOW-BILLED LOON south of the fishing dock in Tramp
Harbor (off the east shore of Vashon Island just north of Portage). It was
light brown overall with a pale, upward-beveled lower mandible, snooty bill
posture, pale neck with a dark auricular smudge, eye in the off-white of the
face, but too far for a photo.



There is an abundance of loons on Vashon, mostly Red-throated, plus several
more Eared Grebes, several hundred Western Grebes, a hundred or so Horned
Grebes, a couples dozen Red-necked Grebes and lots more besides.



Gene Hunn

184786 47th Pl NE

Lake Forest Park, WA

enhunn323 at comcast.net