Subject: [Tweeters] Caspian Tern over Duwamish
Date: May 2 18:47:11 2012
From: Mary Metz - maryjmetz at yahoo.com


I finally *looked* at the gull I've been hearing for the last week or so both in West Seattle and on Harbor Island and, by gum, that bird that sounds startlingly like my cat isn't a gull at all but, rather, a Caspian tern. This evening (5:30ish) it was either chasing or being chased by a couple of (glaucous/western gulls above the Harbor Island Marina.

Also seen on the walk homeward, a bushtit couple building their nest out of moss, twigs, and kleenex, and two rabbits (not part of the nest). (Scott responded to my "You know what that means" about two rabbits with "Yeah, the peregrines are definintely gone.")

-Mary Metz
West Seattle
maryjmetzatyahoo.com