Tweets,
Re. affirmation of the Websters' owl posting, David, our daughter (Emi), and I just returned from the Renton Post Office, where that drowsy bird was still sitting at 7 p.m. It is in the pink tree right at the corner of the PO. This was a lifer for Emi, so we gave up the second half of the Husky game for the drive--so glad it was there!
Penny Koyama, Bothell
plkoyama at verizon.net
----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Webster
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 6:35 PM
Subject: [Tweeters] Burrowing Owl in Renton plus South King County


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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