HI ALL:
At 6:45am this morning, I got a call from Doug Watkins and he said that
he had found a Black-crowned Night-Heron at the Schel-chelb Estuary near
Lynwood Center, Bainbridge Island, WA. I arrived there a little after
7:00am and Doug and Brad Waggoner had the bird in their scopes. It was a
juvenile bird and it was standing next to the stream that enters the
estuary at its north end. As we watched it, Tipper (Doug's Wife), Jamie
Acker, and George Gerdts arrived to see the bird. The bird spent the hour
or so that we watched it feeding and interacting with a Great Blue Heron
and a hen Mallard. It was perched in the nearby alder trees when we left
around 8:00am. This bird is the first island record and as far as we know the second record for
Kitsap County.

sincerely
--

Ian Paulsen
Bainbridge Island, WA, USA
" Which just goes to show that a
passion for books is extremely unhealthy."
from Cornelia Funke's "Inkheart".