Tweets,

I have the following from my King County data base. Perhaps missing some
between 1980 and 1990, plus the two current sightings. Stragglers sometimes
hang around for a year or more.

Gene Hunn
Lake forest Park
Enhunn323 at comcast.net

Black-billed Magpie 10/6/1936 Seattle 1 Jewett et
al. p. 463
Black-billed Magpie Dec 1953 Seattle 1 Seattle CBC

Black-billed Magpie winter 1959-1960 south Seattle 11 AFN
14:335
Black-billed Magpie 12/27/1967 s of Seattle 2 AFN
22:471
Black-billed Magpie 1/6/1974 North Bend 1
SASN; AB 28
Black-billed Magpie 2/17/1975 University of Washington 1
SASN; AB 29
Black-billed Magpie 4/25/1975 Lake City 1
SASN; AB 29
Black-billed Magpie 2/8/1976 Ravenna Park 1
SASN; AB 30(3) until March 28, 1976
Black-billed Magpie 12/13/1976 15th & Ravenna 1
SASN; AB 31(3) same as previous winter?
Black-billed Magpie 1/14/1977 Des Moines 1 SASN

Black-billed Magpie 7/17/1977 Green Lake, Seattle 1
SASN
Black-billed Magpie 9/20/1977 University of Washington 1
SASN
Black-billed Magpie 10/14/1979 Woodinville 1
SASN; AB 34(1)
Black-billed Magpie 4/2/1980 Discovery Park, Seattle 1
SASN; AB 34:809 CLOSED OUT
Black-billed Magpie 3/21/1990 Lake City 1 K. Hickman
ECNW
Black-billed Magpie 6/18/1991 ne Seattle > 1 J. Egbert,
E. Townsend ECNW since the spring
Black-billed Magpie 8/18/1991 Hobart, se of Issaquah 1 J.
Bononi ECNW
Black-billed Magpie 1/11/1992 ne Seattle 1 C.
Easterberg ECNW
Black-billed Magpie 10/28/2000 Discovery Park, Seattle 1 R.
Weiner NAB 55.1

-----Original Message-----
From: tweeters-bounces at mailman2.u.washington.edu
[mailto:tweeters-bounces at mailman2.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Kathy
Andrich
Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2010 5:25 PM
To: tweet
Subject: [Tweeters] Birding is Weird Sometimes (Seattle Magpie)

Hi Tweeters,

I saw a Black-billed Magpie today in the greater Seattle area, but was it
THE Magpie? Probably but still...I was just floored when I was driving to W
Sea to look for a Magpie after dipping on the Discovery Park Red-naped
Sapsucker and found a Magpie at E Marginal Way South very close to where the
3200 block of S Horton Street joins Marginal. The Magpie was foraging on
the ground on the waterfront side of Marginal. I spun a ueee and parked and
carefully crossed the street, got some crappy pictures after it flew into
some scrubby pine type trees then got a good enough pic after it flew into a
bare branched deciduous tree.

There has been a Magpie in the greater Portland area too and it generated a
lot of discussion on OBOL as to it's origins. People do sometimes keep them
illegaly as pets, especially pirates according to some OBOLites. This bird
did not seem tame in any way.

No Townsend's Solitaire for me but I'll take the Magpie. The Solitaire may
have moved on because a Robin was foraging without a care on the juniper
berries.

Kathy
Roosting in Kent, near Lake Meridian
(chukarbird at yahoo dot com)
Any driving directions contained within this message are given as a
courtesy, beware, author is directionally challenged and will not vouch for
them.



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