hi:

the sno-falls peregrines are ready for a new season. scott dodson reports
seeing copulation this afternoon, 3/11. no word yet on where the scrape
will be. if the weather is bearable, there will doubtless be more breeding
behavior tomorrow. best place to see anything is the lower view area, now
called peregrine point, or something like that, by pse. there is major work
going on on both the turbines inside the cliff and the lower power house,
therefore the former platform has been replaced by a temporary (but sturdy
and safe) wooden deck which is not covered, so it can be chilly and windy.

i saw the tokul creek dippers yesterday working the gravel shoal where the
creek empties into the river. that was the first sighting that i know of of
both birds at one time and place. the underside of the bridge was either
cleaned out by flooding or by pse in anticipation of their project. there
is no evidence of nest building under the bridge at this point. if they
have already started a nest site, i don't know where it is. the floods this
past season did some fairly major reshaping of the creek bed so most of the
islands between the bridge and the river are gone. photo ops for parents
and young may not be as good this year as the last several have been.

about a hundred swans remain as of today in the area north of sikes lake
(off carnation farm road) near the intersection of ne 100th and west
snoqualmie valley road. sometimes they are visible from the red barn, other
times it takes a little hunting to find them.

sikes lake currently sports several pairs of common mergansers and at least
one pair of pied billed grebes.

regards,

t

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dave templeton
fall city, wa

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