Tweets,
In addition to about 40 species of birds (including in the nearby neighborhood) on Sat a.m. I saw an amazing occurrence at North Creek Park. An Osprey (my FOY) was cruising along, then went into a stoop. I watched, wondering where the fish was it might be aiming for, but instead it hit hard at a tree branch, busting it off and carrying it away in both talons. I guess I never thought about how/where Ospreys scored all of those "nest sticks," but this, at least, is one of their techniques.

There were 3 eagles out and about and no GBHs on the nests, and the field on the Mill Creek end of the trail was alive with American Pipits. Least Sandpipers were working the mud at that end of the trail, too.

Penny Koyama, Bothell
plkoyama at verizon.net


----- Original Message -----
From: jmy09 at aol.com
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 3:57 PM
Subject: [Tweeters] Re: Am. Kestrel pair in Mill Creek


It is a great park!

There is a Great Blue Heron rookery here, also. There are five or six nests and there had been
three pairs of herons in early March. (I had heard from another birder that the Bald Eagle had decimated the eggs in the nests the last couple of years.) I was gone for a month and when I returned last week there were no herons around. I watched the nests for an hour, then saw the Bald Eagle land on one of the nests. I am not sure if the Eagle has now claimed the nest for him/herself or if there were eggs that fell to the same fate as in the previous two years.

There are Barn Owls in the barn at the south end of the park and an American Bittern was seen in one of the ponds last week. (I heard him yesterday)

Janis in Mill Creek Snohomish Co.







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