Hi Tweeters,

I too saw a swallow yesterday from the bus going over 520, I wouldn't be surprised if it isn't the same bird Scott saw.? It was picking things from the surface of Lake Washington.

?

Kathy
Roosting in Kent, near Lake Meridian
(chukarbird at yahoo dot com)
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From: "lsr at ramoslink.info" <lsr at ramoslink.info>
To: tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Thursday, December 1, 2011 4:03 PM
Subject: [Tweeters] Magnuson Park, 1 December 2011


Tweets,

Cold and very foggy this morning, at times limiting visibility to less than 50 m, making bird by ear critical. But, construction of the new lagoon is now in the phase of putting up a guardrail, and equipment noise was considerable, making birding by ear a challenge. Still, there were birds about, though it was work to find them.

Hardly any ducks in the wetlands which are quite full of water now. Most of the divers were off-shore near the swim beach, including largest number of scaups and goldeneyes this year. But, because of limited visibility, could only pick out a couple of close-in grebes: Horned and Pied-billed.

No Barn Owls today, and a single Anna's Hummingbird. American Robin and European Starling were present and vocal in huge numbers, many hundreds of each. At least a dozen Lincoln's Sparrows, plus several Fox and White-crowned, and dozens of Golden-crowned. It was interesting to watch one of the White-crowns which had a broken leg. Of course, the leg didn't really limit maneuverability (of flight), although when on the ground scratching for food, it seemed to have a much lower profile, with the broken leg dragging behind. The only other notable was a single immature Barn Swallow, flying between shore and the swim platform.

For the day, 49 species.

Scott Ramos
Seattle


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