Hi Josh and all:
My friend Cathea lives in SeaTac at the north end of Des Moines Creek Park. She has quite the feeder setup w/ thawed water, hummer feeders w/ Xmas lights, and various bushes and plantings that she has raked out so birds can feed under them. She set up a picnic table w/ an open umbrella over it. On the table is chicken scratch, blk-oil sunflower seeds, and some niger seed. She hoped the robins would use it.
She called at 10:20 and said 3 RAVENS were there for awhile and just left. We suspect they breed here. Ravens are scarce here in the Puget Sound lowlands, perhaps because of harrassment by crows.
She also has other winter birds including at least one Varied Thrush.
Reported by Carol Schulz
Des Moines - 4'' of snow w/ a few drifts
carol.schulz50 at gmail



From: Josh Hayes
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 10:04 AM
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Subject: [Tweeters] Any good cold-weather sightings?


I am hopeful some yard rarities will amble down the hills and into town. I've got lots of various seed out there to entice them, but the most interesting sighting so far was a determined little Anna's Hummingbird slurping on our equally-determined sage flowers out there. Not exactly a "snow bird"!



So - anything good?



-Josh Hayes in North Seattle (4 inches of snow)