I think we need to be cautious about approaching the pond from the West 90
area. A few people have mentioned that they believe the West 90 public area
does not extend over to where you need to be to see the pond from the West
side.



It would really be great for someone to get some confirmation on legal
access issues from the West 90 side.



I'm sure the last thing we want to happen is to have problems because
trespassing is occurring and a land owner seeks retribution.



Best regards,



Doug Schurman

Seattle







From: tweeters-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu
[mailto:tweeters-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Rob
Sandelin
Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2011 9:50 AM
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Subject: [Tweeters] Osprey learns to fish



Spent a couple of days at Upper Snow Lake out of Leavenworth. As the
shadows covered the lake in the early evening I watched two Osprey that flew
out over the lake. The first one, the adult, gracefully swooped down and
plucked a fish from the water. The following bird was a youngster who
immediately began crying for food. The adult beat wings to the other side
of the lake and after a following a short distance, Jr. swerved off and
starting swooping around. Finally it dove into the lake with a huge
Kersplash that could be heard all around the lake. It shook itself off and
short of wobbled a bit to get airborne and then, Kersplash into the water
again. It reminded me of a water skier crashing. Again no fish. This time
Jr. did a series of hops and splashes, and after the third one, it came up
with a fish. (I think by that point the trout were wondering what was going
on and all came up to see) anyway, the bird flew over to a lakeside cliff,
and this time it had a different call, which I interpreted as....I got one!
I got one! Finally the mosquitoes drove me into my tent but the
Kersplashing continued off and on and from my tent I could tell when the
bird got its fish.



Rob Sandelin

Naturalist, Writer, Teacher