Subject: [Tweeters] Stillwater Wildlife Area, Yellowlegs, Eagle nest,
Date: Jun 27 18:29:43 2014
From: Kelly McAllister - mcallisters4 at comcast.net


I visited Stillwater Wildlife Area between Carnation and Duvall today and
was surprised to see a Yellowlegs out on an island in the Snoqualmie River
at the location of the oft-mentioned King County Bank Swallow colony. I also
watched a Bald Eagle flying with a great big trailing wad of grass and it
landed in a nest in a cottonwood across the river. I had a pretty difficult
time figuring out how many Bank Swallows and how many Northern Rough-winged
Swallows were nesting in the roughly 60 burrows in the river bank. I got
more pictures of the rough-winged swallows because they cooperate and perch
sometimes. I think I may have seen 9 Bank Swallows at the same time. I got
the sense that there may have been 5 or 6 pairs of rough-winged swallows
nesting at the site.



Some pictures here:



https://www.flickr.com/photos/29002564 at N08/14523231005/



Kelly McAllister

Olympia, Washington