Hi Tweeters,
Yesterday afternoon, my wife and I took a nice stroll around Green Lake in north Seattle. We entered the loop from the north using the sidewalk that goes by the sports fields and basketball courts, and there I saw probably 100+ Double-Crested Cormorants (DCCo) all congregated together on a small wooden platform about 30 feet offshore. Later during our walk, every single one of the DCCo's had left the platform, and had shifted to an amazingly concentrated flock nearshore in the southwestern section of the lake. It appears that they were feasting on some sort of fish bounty that was just in one small area.
I have walked around Green Lake a number of times in the past few years and have seen a few DCCo, but never such a large, tightly concentrated group. My question is: Are they feasting on some sort of natural phenomenon, or, as was suggested to me by a friend, does anyone know of a recent release of fish in Green Lake that they are taking of?
Several additional fun sightings around Green Lake were a few groups of Yellow-rumped Warblers flycatching at the water's edge, and 3 male Eurasian Wigeon together in one of the many groups of American Wigeon (I would have too look more closely at these before stating that they are all pure Eurasians).

Good birding,
Evan
Seattle, WA
evanghouston AT yahoo.com




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