Subject: [Tweeters] Mystery Bird Posting for Tweeters
Date: Sep 20 21:20:29 2009
From: Kelly McAllister - mcallisters4 at comcast.net


I think it has to be a juvenile startling that got into something red that stained the feathers on its face.

Kelly McAllister
----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Filley
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2009 8:45 PM
Subject: [Tweeters] Mystery Bird Posting for Tweeters


During a visit to Seattle this summer I spotted a bird on Alki Point (July 20, 2009) that no one here in Arizona has been able to identify. Three pictures are on my Flickr ?mystery bird? album at http://www.flickr.com/photos/42713742 at N02/.



This mystery bird was spotted on some breakwater rocks nearly at the tip of Alki Point . Some condos and the Duwamish Head Greenbelt are across Alki Avenue SW from the little dock park where this bird was spotted. I would estimate the bird was about 7 inches long. It hopped around the rocks looking for something to eat for several minutes. The red around the eye and the reddish crown are what throw everyone off. Can you help solve the mystery?

Thank you,

Richard Filley

rdfilley at gmail.com

Mesa, Arizona



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