Thanks to Gary Bletsch for the excellent
directions to the Harris Sparrow spot in Bothell.
Only correction I wold make is that the hanging
bird feeder is perhaps 50 yards down the dike path
instead of 100. Got there today around 12:00 and
within 3 seconds had the sparrow in some
blackberries just east of the feeder. It hung
around a tad, came up onto the path joining a
number of both White and Golden Crowns and and
Song Sparrows and then disappeared returning
intermittently over the next 90 minutes or so I
was told by others who visited and saw the sparrow
later. I walked along the dike to the road bridge
crossing North Creek to the south and saw a nice
array of birds including many sparrows, only a few
species of ducks (Mallard, Bufflehead and
Gadwall), Violet Green and Tree Swallows,
Kingfisher, Flicker, American Bald Eagle, House
Finch, Junco, Marsh Wren, Robins, RW Blackbirds,
BC Chickadees, Bushtit, RC Kinglet, GB Heron, and
what was most likely a Sharp Shinned Hawk,
definitely an accipiter. Someone else reported a
Red Breasted Sapsucker, but I missed it. Yes,
fortunate to see the bird at all and definitely so
quickly, but there have been many other times when
"stake outs" were missed altogether or seen only
after very long searches. The easy ones "almost"
make one forget the harder ones.