thanks to Carol Schulz & Doug Parrott, both of whom responded in less than
30 minutes. I was at the ponds before 10 this morning. however, tho I
spent two hours patrolling the ponds, no yellow-headed blackbird caught my
attention. A photographer taking pictures of a Common Yellowthroat said
he'd seen the bird earlier in the morning, so it had been around.

otherwise, the ponds produced:
Mallards - several
American Wigeon - one male
Canada Geese - several large families
Pied-billed Grebe - one
American Coot - several
Great Blue Heron- one
Red-winged Blackbird - one fly-away
American Crow - several
Common Yellowthroat - many heard, several seen
Song Sparrow - two
Golden-crowned Sparrow - one recalcitrant (or so it appeared to be, he
refused to come out on the dry side of the brush, & I refused to go wading)

Chris Kessler
north Seattle




On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Carol & Lynn Schulz <
carol.schulz50 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 <1northraven at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Sunday, May 22, 2011 8:37 AM
> *To:* Carol & Lynn Schulz <carol.schulz50 at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
> *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
>>
>


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