Hey tweets, the jackpot just got hit today, big-time, at the Fill. It
started off with a glorious TOWNSEND'S WARBLER so incredibly yellow it
took my breath away. I'm lucky a bug didn't fly into my open mouth.
The bird was foraging in the alder grove kitty-corner from the kiosk.
Also in there were numerous Orange-crowned Warblers and Warbling
Vireos, also quite a few Yellow-rumps of both kinds.

Out on Shoveler's Pond was a gorgeous male YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD.
His yellow was deeper than the Townsend's but just as incredible,
especially when set against his black eyeliner. Rounding the path
south of Main Pond, I found a WESTERN GREBE sailing along in the lake,
six AMERICAN PIPITS strutting in the field to the west of the pond,
and an OSPREY eating a fish on top of the baseball diamond light
standard. In the tree south of Main Pond (next to the three Reading
Rocks) was a WILSON'S WARBLER, a bird so yellowful I am heading to the
paint store to find adequate names for the different shades.

At the Dime Lot, a couple of GOLDEN-CROWNED SPARROWS were pecking at
gravel, showing off their lemon-yellow crowns. It's a rare privilege
to see them so brightly colored - winter Golden-crowns look a little
tarnished to me.

Over at Surber Grove, two BAND-TAILED PIGEONS few right past me and
dove into the trees near the four yellow posts. Nearby, a YELLOW
WARBLER hopped from tree leaf to leaf, one last yellow sunspot on this
beautiful sunny day.

Total number of species seen at the Fill this year: 124. - Connie,
Seattle

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