Subject: [Tweeters] Raven in West Seattle?
Date: Sep 21 09:29:53 2010
From: Dana Beaudry - danab4 at u.washington.edu


Was I "hearing things", or was I hearing a raven?

While on a walk in the Fauntlee Hills neighborhood, between
Fauntleroy and Lincoln Parks last tuesday (9/14/10) I think I heard
the call of a Raven, I remember someone mentioning seeing a Raven in
Lincoln Park sometime in the last 12-18 months. Could it be hanging
around again? anyone else seen/heard one of these corbin friends?

Dana BE


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> 3. Up Coming Westport Seabird Trips and todays Highlights
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> 4. Red--throated Loon needed !!!!!!!! (Ruth Sullivan)
> 5. RED-THROATED LOON in NEED!!!!!! (Ruth Sullivan)
> 6. Not so rare Albatoss (Bruce Labar)
> 7. Pt. Roberts, Whatcom Birds (Michael Willison)
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> Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 12:06:33 -0700
> From: Ellen Blackstone <ellen at 123imagine.net>
> Subject: [Tweeters] BirdNote, last week, and the week of Sept. 19,
> 2010
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> Hello, Tweeters!
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> Last week, BirdNote aired:
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> * Tree Swallow Roost
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> * When Birds Land in Parking Lots
> -- what to do about stranded waterbirds
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> * Phalaropes, Spinners on the Sea
> http://www.birdnote.org/birdnote.cfm?id=873
> * Flying South with Pacific Golden-Plovers
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> * HawkWatch 2010 - Chelan Ridge and elsewhere
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 01:53:25 +0000 (UTC)
> From: wheelermombi at comcast.net
> Subject: [Tweeters] A Day At The Beach: Tokeland to Westport; also, a
> newly published book
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
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> HI Tweeters,
>
>
>
> I spent the day birding the Tokeland to Westport region. The
> weather was quite mild and calm, with the rain holding off until a
> little after 2:00. Here are some of the highlights in
> chronological order:
>
>
>
> Midway Beach: If you haven't been here for a while, the road is
> still closed just passed the bathroom. Because of the recent rain,
> the section where the road meets the sand is flooded, but the water
> is only ankle deep and easy to cross if you don't mind going
> barefoot through it. To the right (north) of the road as one walks
> in, perhaps a 1/3 of a mile away, was a pond containing 8 RED-
> NECKED PHALAROPES, SHORT-BILLED (I think) DOWITCHERS, and WESTERN
> SANDPIPERS. A PEREGRINE FALCON kept the birds on their toes by
> making a few low passes. I wandered about for a couple of hours
> hoping to locate snowy plovers or buff-breasted sandpipers without
> any luck. I eventually worked my way to the left (south) side of
> the road. Perhaps a 1/4 mile in I flushed a shorebird that had
> been hidden by dune grass on mud covered ground. It landed nearby
> and allowed me to eventually approach with 30' or so. I believe
> that it was a SHARP-TAILED SANDPIPER, although as I have onl!
> y seen this species once (the one that was south of Kent last
> year) I'm not exactly an authority on the species. It was the size
> of a Pectoral Sandpiper with a similar sized bill, but its breast
> was buffy, unstreaked, and the coloration did not have a clear
> boundary at its inferior end. It did have a few streaks on the
> sides of its breast. It had a rich, rufous cap and a thin,
> continuous white eye ring. The feathers of its wings and back were
> a chocolate color with pale edging. I need to buy a camera.
>
>
>
> Tokeland: I arrived around high tide and the MARBLED GODWITTS were
> split into 3 flocks. While scoping the largest flock out on the
> rocks, Khan Tran and two companions arrived. He almost immediately
> spotted the BAR-TAILED GODWITT in the midst of the flock even
> though it had its head tucked under; very impressive. Several
> WILLETS were mixed in with 2 of the godwitt flocks. Lots of COMMON
> LOONS were about, a couple of which called back and forth to one
> another several times.
>
>
>
> Westport: I scoped the water from the observation deck at the far
> end of the marina. Hugh numbers of DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTS could
> be seen. The only alcids were quite far out. I was able to ID
> small numbers of COMMON MURRE, PIGEON GUILLEMOT, and RHINOCEROS
> AUKLET. There was also a small pod of HARBOR PORPOISES swimming
> near them. There was a first year Rhinoceros Auklet within the
> marina area that was frantically paddling about with the aid of its
> wings. It was unable to fly and appeared to be searching for a way
> out to open water. It came as close as 10' from where I was
> standing, completely ignoring me. Very depressing.
>
>
>
> Although the tide was already going out when I arrived at Bottle
> Beach and the peeps were distant silhouettes, a nice consolation
> was watching RED-WING BLACKBIRDS flycatching above the reeds in the
> marsh. There were still a few COMMON YELLOWTHROATS about. Out on
> the distant sand spits were hundreds more DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTS.
>
>
>
> On an unrelated note, I'm not sure if this has been posted
> previously, but for you butterfly enthusiasts, a book by Robert
> Michael Pyle was recently published titled "Mariposa Road (not to
> be confused with "Kingbird Highway"): The First Butterfly Big Year".
>
>
>
> Good birding and butterflying,
>
>
>
> Lonnie Somer
>
> Olympia
>
> wheelermombi at comcast.net
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 21:26:26 -0700
> From: "Bruce Labar" <blabar at harbornet.com>
> Subject: [Tweeters] Up Coming Westport Seabird Trips and todays
> Highlights
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> Westport Seabirds last two trips of the year are on Sept. 25 and
> Oct. 9. There is still some spaces available. This time of year is
> great for shearwater species, jaegers and rarities. To inquire for
> information and to sign up, check out our website at
> www.westportseabirds.com.
>
> Highlights and sightings from todays trip include the following:
>
> Northern Pintail- 20 plus miles out at sea
> Green-winged Teal- same
> Surf Scoter
> Black Scoter
> Common Loon
> Pacific Loon
> Western Grebe
> Black-footed Albatross
> Northern Fulmar
> Pink-footed Albatross
> Flesh-footed Albatross- several sightings, perhaps 3 birds
> Buller's Shearwater- around 12 individuals
> Sooty Shearwater
> Short-tailed Shearwater- 2 close birds on the water for carefull
> study, several possible in flight
> Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel
> Leach's Storm-Petrel- 1
> Brown Pelican- hundreds
> Brandt's Cormorant
> Pelagic Cormorant
> Double-crested Cormorant
> Great Blue Heron- in harbor area
> Black Turnstone- on Westport jetty
> Surfbird- same
> Wandering Tattler-same
> Red Phalarope-2 at chum site
> Red-necked Phalarope
> South Polar Skua- several sightings
> Pomarine Jaeger-1
> Parasitic Jaeger- around 6
> Long-tailed Jaeger-1
> Heermann's Gull
> Mew Gull
> California Gull
> Western Gull
> Glaucous-winged Gull
> Sabine's Gull- good numbers
> Black-legged Kittiwake-2
> tern sp.-2
> Common Murre
> Marbled Murrelet-2
> Cassin's Auklet
> Rhinoceros Auklet
> Tufted Puffin-3
>
> Mammals included several Humpback Whales, one that kept breaching
> out of the water, and 4 Orca!
>
> For complete listings and numbers check out the website in a few days.
>
> Bruce LaBar
> Tacoma, WA
> blabar at harbornet.com
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 21:36:56 -0700
> From: "Ruth Sullivan" <godwit513 at comcast.net>
> Subject: [Tweeters] Red--throated Loon needed !!!!!!!!
> To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
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> Hello Tweeters,
>
> I been in Ocean Shores since Thursday,sine it been the third year
> my Son
> died on the 19th of September.I intend to walk the whole loop of
> Damon Point
> today.It took me over three hours today in good weather.The reason
> I only
> write this part of my trip up ,I found a stranded Red throated
> Loon on my
> way back.It looked like a piece of wood carving ,to I got closer
> that I
> recognize that this was a life bird,He had his beak tacked in to
> his back
> and his eye's was closed.But touched this bird he open his bright
> red Eye
> and show his sharp peaky bill.The plumage was not real gray but
> gray and
> some presuming this was a first year bird.I managed to put the Loon
> in to
> the water and he kept swimming but close to land not way
> out.Infact he was
> swimming with me ,I figured he is OK, but he managed to going on land
> again.so presuming there was something more wrong with this
> bird.When I
> finished my walk I contacted Kathleen Wolgemuth in Ocean Shores who
> for
> years tagged dead birds keeping records and photographed the
> species.Her and
> her daughter went and looked at this bird and he seems to be OK,it
> joint
> another bird,but she is checking again tomorrow and see if he is
> still Ok.If
> you ever find a maybe sick bird in Ocean Shores Kathleen got some
> kind of
> connection to help this sick birds.I f you remember when I rescue a
> Sooty
> Shearwater in Westport and took this bird home not able to find any
> one who
> would take this bird .Now I bird with a VET on Wednesday in
> Nisqually who I
> can get help.he own a emergency Clinic here in Tacoma
> Birds on this walk on Damon Point where.
> 21 White winged Scooter
> 15 Surf SCOTER
> 1 other Red Throated Loon
> 2 Brant Goose,
> 750 + DC Cormorants migrating in big lines
> 500 Brown Pelican's flying East
> I BIG GROUP of Shorebirds of 85 birds mixed of Western ,Least
> &Semipalmated
> Plovers where on the beach covert white whit Shells,
> Savannah Sparrow every where I walked So bright in color
> 1 Adult Coopers Hawk,
> 2 Great Blue Heron,
> 1 female Common Merganser on the old Pond on Damon Point ,who got only
> gravel around with no vegetation.
> 1 MORE BIG GROUP of Shorebirds consist of Western ,Least &
> Semipalmated
> Sandpipers
> Tomorrow I join THE GROUP WHO WALK NISQUALLY in Patrick's Honor
> Cheers Ruth Sullivan
>
>
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 21:45:40 -0700
> From: "Ruth Sullivan" <godwit513 at comcast.net>
> Subject: [Tweeters] RED-THROATED LOON in NEED!!!!!!
> To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
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> Hello tweeters,
> I am sorry about the mistake,I am dead tired,Started at 7.00 AM
> this morning
> to bird for 3 hours on the Oyehut Game Range,What I will write up
> to morrow
> ,after I get home from the walk in Nisqually.
>
> Cheers Ruth Sullivan
>
>
>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 21:50:12 -0700
> From: "Bruce Labar" <blabar at harbornet.com>
> Subject: [Tweeters] Not so rare Albatoss
> To: "Tweeters" <Tweeters at u.washington.edu>
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> Matt Pike kindly said that he wished he could of viewed those rare
> Pink-footed and Flesh-footed Albatross today. All I can say is that
> it is late, little sleep, two beers and all things are possible! Of
> course shearwater would fit better and indeed that is what was
> meant. Thanks Matt!
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> Message: 7
> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 10:20:24 -0700
> From: Michael Willison <sendtomichael at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [Tweeters] Pt. Roberts, Whatcom Birds
> To: Posting to Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
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> Tweeters,
>
> Birded Pt. Roberts in Whatcom Co. yesterday afternoon. Had a nice
> assortment of birds and pleasant weather. Birds of note were: a
> mixed flock of a couple hundred SANDERLING and WESTERN SANDPIPER
> including 1 DUNLIN, about 100 BLACK TURNSTONE, all 3 CORMORANT and
> 3 SCOTER species easily seen close to shore, approximately 50
> COMMON TERN were observed, possibly more, a couple CASPIAN still
> around, and finally many BONAPARTE'S GULLS in the area.
>
> Michael Willison
> sendtomichael at hotmail.com
> Stanwood
>
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> Message: 8
> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 11:13:05 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
> From: amk17 at earthlink.net
> Subject: [Tweeters] phinney birds
> To: "Tweeters at U.Washington.edu" <Tweeters at U.Washington.edu>
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> Yard birds this morning: a couple of orange-crowned warblers and a
> Western scrub-jay.
>
> Didn't realize they made it up to Seattle (the jay)...
>
> AKopitov
> Seattle
>
>
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