I just discovered that neither Kent Ponds nor Boeing Ponds are identified in
A Birder's Guide to Washington, and I also cannot find them thru either
Google Maps or Mapquest. I've been too oriented towards the north, and have
forgotten what I once knew. appreciate directions.

Chris Kessler,
n. Seattle


On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Carol & Lynn Schulz <
carol.schulz50 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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