Hi Tweets,

At Seattle Audubon today Barbara fielded a call from a US Postal Service
employee in Renton who reported a small owl in a tree adjacent to the Post
Office on Williams Street, just off Third Avenue. Barbara and I drove down
there and found a Burrowing Owl in the tree. The bird has been there for two
days, and didn't appear stressed or injured, just sleepy, though it watched
us as we watched it for several minutes. We told the postal workers what
they had been looking at, and thanked them for reporting it. This bird is
surely a migrant and will probably leave soon.

We didn't find the Say's Phoebe near Emerald Downs, but the ponds there
featured a few Canada Geese (large flock of c. 500 geese overhead) and
dabblers: Mallards, shovelers, pintail, and Green-winged Teal. At the Boeing
Ponds the water was pretty deep; we found Bufflehead, coot, Ruddy Duck,
Pied-billed Grebe, and Mallards. Around the pond we found Yellow-rumped
Warbler, White-crowned Sparrow, junco, House Finch, with several Tree
Swallows and a single Violet-green Swallow overhead, the latter our first
this season.

On South 204th we found an American Kestrel perched on the fence of the oval
horse track, and a single Greater Yellowlegs by the pond north of the road.
Spring seems just around the corner!

Paul and Barbara Webster
Seattle
paul.webster AT comcast.net
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