Alan,

I also found one of those fresh dead, with no signs of trauma on an
Issaquah trail a week ago. This isn't much of a pattern, but still.

Larry Schwitters
Issaquah
On Jan 4, 2009, at 4:29 PM, pan wrote:

> Greetings, all,
>
> 1) By way of reminder that conditions good for birders aren't always
> good for birds, I found one of Seattle's many visiting Red-breasted
> Sapsuckers dead on Capitol Hill (near Belmont and Bellevue) on the 2nd.
>
> 2) At Montlake Fill this afternoon, I failed to find the Redhead, but
> one of the male EURASIAN WIGEON showed no white on the side or flanks
> (grading into the darker rump) and only a hint of pale forehead.
> TRUMPETER SWANS were still in the bay.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alan Grenon
> Seattle
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