Subject: [Tweeters] Fill Full for Fall
Date: Jul 16 13:04:35 2008
From: Constance Sidles - constancesidles at gmail.com


Hey tweets, if you can say the above subject line three times without
fumbling, then you may read on with a tip of the hat from me. Fall
fell at the Fill today, for sure. The place was stuffed with
shorebirds, to wit:
2 Long-billed Dowitchers shuttling back and forth between the main pond
and Shoveler Pond
2 Western Sandpipers, ditto
7 Least Sandpipers, ditto
10 dowitchers flying off to the east in a flock (couldn't tell whether
they were of the Long-billed persuasion or not)
3 Killdeer on Shoveler, 2 on the main pond, 2 in the baseball field

Other birds of note:
Lazuli Bunting: a male and a female on Shoveler Pond
juvenile Red-tailed Hawk being chased and harassed by everyone,
including swallows, hummers, blackbirds, etc.
Osprey eating a fish on the southwest pond
2 Double-crested Cormorants back from their summer vacation
Caspian Tern
Cinnamon Teal in eclipse, but otherwise picture-perfect
Wood Ducks all over the lake
juvenile Hooded Merganser in main pond

Altogether, I found 45 species. - Connie, Seattle

constancesidles at gmail.com