Tweeters,

9 of us enjoyed the partly sunny skies yesterday on the Rainier Audubon field trip to Fall City and Carnation. Highlights were a Black-billed Magpie flying low overhead at the Twin Rivers Golfcourse along SE 44th Pl in Fall City. We also got long close up views of a male Pileated Woodpecker tearing the hell out of a tree along the road. We later ended up at an overlook along Carnation Farm Road just before Nestle for nice valley viewing. An adult Harrier flew in and landed on the ground next to a Peregrine Falcon. We had a single immature Snow Goose amongst a couple of hundred Cackling Geese as well. Another group of several hundred Cacklers contained several Greater White-fronted Geese. Farther down the road just past the turn for Sikes Lake we pulled over again to view the Trupeter Swans and found two Eurasian Wigeons. We ended the trip in early afternoon with 47 species for the day and 9 happy to have seen the sun birders.

Amy Schillinger
Renton, WA
schillingera at hotmail.com