Hi Tweets:
In north Kent, I drove by the pumpkin field and corn maze place on S 212th St at the
bottom of Orillia Rd today, Wed, Nov 18. There are a few pumpkins remaining and the
corn field is now stubble. Driving 212th at 40 mph I looked north and there were
large white birds and many geese, blackbirds, and crows. After an errand, I drove
back there and parked on the south side of S 212th at the pullout to the 212th St
pond. There is a rise there, and you get a fine view north across the fields. In
the stubble field there were over 1000 Cackling Geese, 4 TRUMPETER SWANS, and 1 adult
BRANT. I saw the Brant for about a minute, got distracted, and then could not
relocate it in the flock. Back in late October there was a juv Snow Goose w/ the
cacklers but it was not there today. There were a few Mallards in the field.
I was there about 3pm, and Cackling Geese continued to fly in. Crows and Red-winged
Blackbirds swirled about. In the pond just to the south of 212th up the gravel
driveway there were Gadwalls, a Northern Shoveler, a Bufflehead, and one Coot.
At about 3:20 hundreds of crows started to lift off and fly southwest to the back of
the Polygon new homes. As I drove on Riverview Blvd over to the bottom of the hill
where 216th goes up the hill from Riverview Blvd, hundreds of crows were settling
into the trees down there. I could not stay to see if they remained there for the
night.
The Kent Ponds census team reported a crow roost over in Kent Ponds Sept 27. I don't
know if these are the same group of birds, or if this is another roost.
Yours, Carol Schulz
Des Moines, WA
linusq at att.net