Subject: [Tweeters] Northern Shrike at Boeing Ponds
Date: Mar 2 19:49:28 2008
From: Tim Brennan - tsbrennan at hotmail.com



Hey Tweets,

I made a trip out to Boeing Pond Sunday afternoon between 2 and 3, and saw a Northern Shrike - a life bird for me! I walked just a short way down the west side of the ponds (song sparrow, wigeon, mallard, coot, bufflehead) and was on my way back, when I saw it perched high in a tree near the shore. All I got to see was a clear breast and the hint of its eye stripe before it left for another distant tree across the field to the west.

>From there I went to the flooded fields near Frager Road, where there were a good number of Northern Pintails, and Northern Shovelers. Also saw a Great Blue Heron, a Sharp-Shinned Hawk, and a number of Ruby-Crowned Kinglets.

Then I got to see the Shrike again! This time stored in the camera of a birder who had been to the Boeing Ponds earlier in the day. Don't you wish you could always get that when you're only mostly sure that you've seen a bird? Well, at least sometimes!

-Tim Brennan
Renton
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