Hi Valerie & Tweeters:
I went to 3-Forks very early Sat morning, June 20. I finally found the place from
the highway. I couldn't find it the weekend before.
It's just great there. I want to go back. I saw and heard the Indigo Bunting, and
the Least Flycatcher. The Least Fly called for just a short time, then flew to the
cottonwoods and was silent. There were 4 elk in the Indigo Bunting field giving me
the fish eye and snorting quite a bit. They were close. I counted at least 6 or
more Lazuli's perched up and singing as I walked in. At the parking lot there were
many Bullock's Orioles, and several Swainson's Thrushes that you could see. (That
was different.) I dipped on the Catbird. As I was walking back to the car about
8:30am, 6 Turkey Vultures kettled up. Above them was a soaring Peregrine Falcon.
I'll give some directions from the freeway, and paste the original directions to the
Indigo Bunting from Ken Grant below that.
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Directions from hwy: Take I-90 to exit 27. From the exit, drive on past the
Snoqualmie Casino roundabout, and continue on a short distance to the light at
Meadowbrook Way. Turn left on Meadowbrook and drive down thru the light at the
bottom which is hwy 202, Railroad Ave. You are in the town of Snoqualmie. Stay on
Meadowbrook and drive about 1 mile? to the next light which is SE Park St. Turn
right on Park, drive on Park past Snoqualmie Elementary, and you will see Centennial
Park ball fields on the right. 3-Forks parking lot is to the left.
Yours, Carol Schulz
Des Moines
linusq at att.net

Here are the good directions to the bunting from Ken Grant.
>From Ken and Tina, Wed, June 10, 2009

Indigo Bunting? in Snoqualmie
Tweets,

This morning around 9am, I saw what I think was an Indigo Bunting. The bird is all
dark blue with a gray bill( not light blue like Mountain Bluebird). I have never
seen this bird and don't know what else it could be. It was at 3 Forks Park across
from Centennial Park.

Directions:

Park in small parking area on SE Park St across from Centennial Field, take trail
through off leash dog area and across the Snoqualmie trail. Follow tire track trail
through tall grass to the far side of this field.

You will follow trail(parallel to river) and take it till it dips down to small
creek. The trail is still parallel to creek( don't take trails that lead to river).

The trail before the creek with have blackberries on both sides and cottonwoods
behind. Turn with your back to creek and the bird was flying back and forth between
cottonwoods.

I hope someone else will see this bird to confirm ID. I have to go to work(outside)
and will not be back on e-mail till later, if someone wants to call me for help
finding bird. My # is 425-802-5586

Ken Grant

North Bend WA

kenandtina at comcast.net

Yours, Carol Schulz
Des Moines, WA
linusq at att.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Valerie Elliott" <VElliott at msn.com>
To: "tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 9:56 PM
Subject: [Tweeters] directions


I misplaced the directions to Three Forks. Could someone resend them to me? If
John's directions were so good, I'd appreciate them. Thanks.

Updated sightings are greatly appreciated.

Valerie Elliott
Olympia, WA