Subject: [Tweeters] Kent Birding
Date: May 21 20:01:19 2011
From: Carol & Lynn Schulz - carol.schulz50 at gmail.com
Hi Tweeters:
After a nice RAS field trip to Flaming Geyser State Park led by Steve Johnson today, Terry Thurber & I continued to bird; hoping she could get a few more species for her birdathon day. At Kent Ponds we viewed a male CINNAMON TEAL from the east berm (grassy knoll), and there were two juv DC Cormorants viewable from the south tower. At Boeing Ponds, we stopped at the first pullout and saw a female YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD in the bushes in the middle of the big pond. A SPOTTED SANDPIPER was on the edge of the pond over by the road. We drove around to the closed off road and walked in there a ways. It was about 5pm. Two beavers were swimming around eating the bushes. As we walked back out we saw another male CINNAMON TEAL and a possible female teal down in the ditch in the field to the east of the blocked-off road. That field also had two Virginia Rails in the grass growing in water.
It was a good day of birding, with very-little rain.
Yours, Carol Schulz
Des Moines
carol.schulz50 at gmail