Subject: [Tweeters] Fill Common Teal
Date: Apr 10 11:14:52 2010
From: Kathy Andrich - chukarbird at yahoo.com


Hi,
The Common Teal was just on Shoveler Pond for point blank looks, thanks Connie.
Also saw baby Killdeer at the pond Connie first saw the teal, and eight hatchling Mallards in the slough near the helipad where the draw for the day was, American Pipets.

Kathy
chukarbird at yahoo dot comm
from my cell

On Sat Apr 10th, 2010 9:53 AM PDT Connie Sidles wrote:

>Hey tweets, the Common Teal was back at the Fill early this morning - floating around on Boy Scout Pond (the pond under the cottonwood grove as you walk toward East Point, past the burned Lone Pine Tree; NOT the Southeast Pond at the point itself). Also present today: an Osprey, a Cinnamon Teal pair (on Southwest Pond), the year's first Barn Swallow and a Northern Rough-winged Swallow, mixed in with a big herd of Violet-greens and several Cliffs, not to mention the ubiquitous Trees. All the swallows were coming to roost at the birch snag on the Loop Trail, where the trail runs parallel to Canoe Island. I think it was too darn cold for them to hunt. They huddled together on the branches, and then periodically swooped out briefly, only to settle back and hunch up - kind of like me on my camp stool. The weather prediction today is for balmy temperatures, but all I got this morning was freezing cold.
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>Chin up, though. This has just got to be the last gasp of winter, right? Kind of reminds me of the Laura Ingalls Wilder tale of the "Long Winter," when Laura wonders if the Ingalls family will survive. It's April and still blizzards keep coming. But Pa says they'll do fine. "Winter's got to give up eventually, but we never will," he remarks. Then the next blizzard hits, and Pa and Laura go back to twisting hay for "firewood." Thank goodness for electric heat. - Connie, Seattle
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