Yesterday afternoon Karen and I car birded the lower Snoqualmie Valley visiting Chinook Bend, Camp Korey, Sikes Lake, Crescent Lake, the Monroe Prison Farm Pond and the Tualco Loop Road.? Camp Korey had a couple hundred Canada Geese and 2 Snow Geese.? South of Crescent Lake Road?were 40+ Trumpeter Swans.? To our surprise we found a yellowlegs along Tualco Loop Road which John Tubbs and Dennis Paulson?IDed as?a Greater Yellowlegs.? Here is a photo:
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At Camp Korey (formerly Carnation Farms) there is a parking lot that is east of the Carnation Farms Road with fields east of the parking lot.? While Karen and I were watching the geese in the field someone came over from Camp Korey.? We had friendly conversation.? Then I asked him about the no trespassing sign on the log on the ground between the parking lot and the field.? I told him that I assumed it meant don't go out in the field.? He said that it meant don't park there.? He said that other people who had parked there looking at birds?had left a bunch of garbage.? That doesn't sound like birders that I know.? He wasn't at all hostile.? He told us that we are welcome since we are local (Karen knew the chief veterinarian at Carnation Farms) and don't litter.? I told him that we pick up litter when we bird, which is true.? He also told us that the elk are in the field every evening at about 4 pm.? They can be viewed from a rise that is a
little bit NW of Chinook Bend natural area.? It certainly is ok to park in an ample lot atop that rise.? Birds can be scoped from there also.
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Hank Heiberg
Lake Joy
Carnation, WA
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