Hi Tweeters and Chris:
For directions to Kent Ponds and Boeing Ponds: Look at our Rainier Audubon (south King County) website, www.rainieraudubon.org. Click on Good Birding Places, then on Green River Natural Resources Area (GRNRA), aka know as Kent Ponds to birders. Or click on Boeing Ponds.
You can also print out our newsletter, and go on a field trip w/ RAS. You do not have to be a RAS member and can come as a guest on a fieldtrip (despite what our website says).
Yours, Carol Schulz
P.S. Wow! I just looked at our website and found out a person named Darrel DeNune took a wonderful photo of a male Bullock's Oriole at Tukwila Pond (in South Ctr) on May 21, '11. Very cool picture!

From: JChristian Kessler
Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2011 8:37 AM
To: Carol & Lynn Schulz
Cc: Tweeters
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Kent Birding
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.
Yours, Carol Schulz