I'm pretty sure I saw a lost parrot notice for a thick-billed or
Alexandrine parrot in Denise's Parrot Place (parrot store/housing on Mercer
Island) the other day.
I'll call them and let them know about this...
-Dan Cordell
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1. Parrot, Thick-billed ? (Larry Hubbell)
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2. Autumn Falls on Port Townsend (Jeff Gibson)
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3. Grumpy In Port Townsend (Jeff Gibson)
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4. Re: Calif. scrub jay in Edmonds--and Seattle (Allison Reak)
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5. Brown Shrike BC (pat.mary.taylor)
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6. Monday and Tuesday Larch Mountain, Clark County migration
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(Jim Danzenbaker)
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7. Discovery Park (Seattle) (pan)
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8. California Condors (Cathy Scott)
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9. Swans (crazydave65)
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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 12:31:33 -0700
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From: Larry Hubbell <ldhubbell at comcast.net>
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To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
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Subject: [Tweeters] Parrot, Thick-billed ?
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Tweeters,
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I and others heard a parrot on Foster Island this morning. I never could
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find it in the foliage but it sounded like the ibird recording of a
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Thick-billed Parrot. I assume it must have escaped from a cage and someone
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is looking for it.
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Last hear about 30 minutes ago on the north end of the island.
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I hope it finds safety before the rains hit.
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Larry
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Sent from my iPhone
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Message: 2
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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 13:03:53 -0700
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From: Jeff Gibson <gibsondesign15 at gmail.com>
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To: Tweeters at u.washington.edu
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Subject: [Tweeters] Autumn Falls on Port Townsend
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Well Autumn is falling on Port Townsend and it's pretty cool. Both
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beautiful and a bit cool. Lots of beautiful sights and sounds. On my
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regular walk up Artillery Hill in Fort Worden the first thing I heard was a
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V of about 100 Greater White fronted Geese. From up on the hill I could
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also hear a bunch of Red-winged blackbirds singing down on the Fort grounds
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something that you don't hear much around here. It seemed like there were
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more Ravens about than usual calling here there and all over. I heard an
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abbreviated fall song of a Pacific Wren and also a singing House
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Wren.
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It also seemed like there were more squirrels and chipmunks running
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around. One chipmunk was climbing way out on narrow snowberry branches and
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eating snowberries. I can't remember ever seeing anything eat a snowberry
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before, beast or bird- I guess they're just not all that great eating. But
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here was this young chipmunk snarfing them down.
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Bitter cherry is a tree that I had overlooked for years until the last
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decade or so but has become one of my favorites. Port Townsend is full of
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them. One of my favorite things about the tree is it's fine textured
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foliage which turns yellow one scattered leaf at a time starting in late
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July Now the bitter cherries at Fort Worden are turning fully gold at least
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some of them. It could be my imagination or maybe just paying more
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attention but this summer seemed to be a banner year for bitter cherry
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fruit some of the trees really loaded. I saw one tree out at Quimper West
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80 (Jefferson land trust) that was so loaded I thought it was a giant
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English Holly for a moment. Birds love these berries but they are very
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bitter. I try one each year just to remind myself.
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Further along my walk on the Hill another line of White fronted geese flew
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over yipping and I say yipping because not long after I came across a group
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of school kids talking with there leader about what they heard and they
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came to the conclusion that it was yipping coyotes. An honest mistake which
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I didn't bother correcting because I was exhausted and grumpy. Another Lost
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teaching moment but who knows maybe they figured it out later.
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Jeff Gibson
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Grumpy in
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Port Townsend wa
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Message: 3
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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 13:48:14 -0700
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From: Jeff Gibson <gibsondesign15 at gmail.com>
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To: Tweeters at u.washington.edu
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Subject: [Tweeters] Grumpy In Port Townsend
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My last post is the first Post I've done via the dictation feature on my
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Mac which I didn't even know it had until my big sister informed me about
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it recently. I just got this new used laptop about a month ago and I'm
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still learning the ropes- a slow process for a person with my dim Computer
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skills.
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Why am I grumpy? Well because I have Parkinson's and often can't type very
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well. And that's just too darn bad because I have lots to say and missed
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out on a lot of opportunities this summer. Today it?s an Ok typing day and
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sort sort of tossup between very slow typing and correcting all the
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screwless groups of the dictation thing that all working out. For instance
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that last bit was supposed to say all the of screw ups of this dictation
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thing. When you feel like throwing your Computer out the window you know
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it's time to take a walk.
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Of course walking and walking some more is great Parkinsons therapy, plus
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you might see a bird or some other cool things.
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Jeff Gibson
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Less grumpy in
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Port Townsend Wa
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Message: 4
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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 14:43:16 -0700
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From: "Allison Reak" <areak823 at gmail.com>
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To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Calif. scrub jay in Edmonds--and Seattle
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I saw a scrub jay in my Ballard (Seattle) neighborhood today, temporarily
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trapped in a chicken coop run. Once I left, it hopped out under the fence.
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This reminded me that In Ballard, I see scrub jays are commonly associated
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with backyard chickens, although mature oak trees may be a bonus
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enticement.
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Although neighborhood rat populations skyrocket with backyard chickens, the
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appearance of scrub jays is a pleasant trade off.
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Allison
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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 15:57:54 -0700
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From: "pat.mary.taylor" <pat.mary.taylor at gmail.com>
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To: Tweeters at u.washington.edu
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Subject: [Tweeters] Brown Shrike BC
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Tweeters
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A Brown Shrike was banded at Rocky Point south of Victoria BC.
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Unfortunately the birds cannot be chased but I'm sending the news in case
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it might be found directly across the straits in Washington.
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Keith Taylor
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Victoria BC
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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 16:56:31 -0700
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From: Jim Danzenbaker <jdanzenbaker at gmail.com>
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To: tweeters tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
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Subject: [Tweeters] Monday and Tuesday Larch Mountain, Clark County
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migration
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Tweeters,
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I visited a secondary location on Larch Mountain Monday (with Cindy
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McCormack) and Tuesday mornings and really enjoyed the results.
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I had previously mentioned last Wednesday that I had finally found a Golden
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Eagle in Clark County - my first in 15 years. Well, on Monday, we found
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two adult Golden Eagles!!! One of them was in view on and off for over an
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hour as it kept flying up and circling around a bit before diving back into
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the trees. Every time it surfaced for viewing, there were Common Ravens
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and at least one Red-tailed Hawk which bombed it. Several times, the eagle
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rolled with talons up and we thought we might see some real action. At
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last check, no raptors or ravens were harmed during the making of that
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memory. Other migrant raptors also winged their way through. Ebird list
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for Monday:
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https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S60245072
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Today was, in short, an extravaganza of passerine migration. Someone
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opened the floodgates and the Varied Thrushes, American Robins, and
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Yellow-rumped Warblers flowed through. My previous daily high count for
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Varied Thrush on Larch Mountain was around 375. That was eclipsed today by
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a lot - *1,697*! American Robin numbers totaled *3,873* and Yellow rumps
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clocked in at *235*. During a 45 minute period, birds were flowing along a
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ridgeline at a rate of 150+ per minute! It was a pleasure to witness this
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level of migration and I was truly in awe. Ebird list:
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https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S60267608
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Will be heading up there again tomorrow morning!
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Keep your eyes and ears skyward!
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Jim
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Jim Danzenbaker
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Battle Ground, WA
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360-702-9395
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jdanzenbaker at gmail.com
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Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2019 03:04:56 +0200 (CEST)
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Today was another great migration day at Discovery Park. Early, lots of
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robins, Varied Thrushes, waxwings, sparrows, and such, three chasing
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Cooper's Hawks, Merlin, but nothing unusual. At West Point, four
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Bonaparte's Gulls joined one of the feeding aggregations, then we were
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surprised to see a Clark's Grebe fairly close, diving a lot, moving south
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against the falling tide. One Common Loon, one Pacific, one passing female
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Harlequin's Duck, Peregrine Falcon. Back up the hill, at Utah wetland, one
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of the Fox Sparrows (many singing today) had lots of extra white feathers
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on the back, rump, head, and wing coverts (continuing? seems I read some
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report of such recently). Nearly back at the south parking lot, a
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Townsend's Solitaire was flying south with robins, landed for a scope view
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, then flew, disappearing behind a tall tree -- perhaps making a hard turn
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east into the neighborhood. I sat with a view east from bird alley (west
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end of the south meadow) to eat lunch, and ha!
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d an unexpected hawk watch: Red-tailed Hawk, Northern Harrier, a couple
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Vaux's Swifts (thought I may have had one earlier), then the shocker, a
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Red-shouldered Hawk, slowly eastbound, stopping to circle to gain altitude
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before moving on, northeast, then probably south-ish, again disappearing
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behind tall trees.
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Oh, and Purple Finch eating snowberries. (I've seen towhees and
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Golden-crowned Sparrows eating them this season, too, though chipmunks do
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seem most appreciative.)
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1 October, 2019,
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Alan Grenon
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Seattle
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Message: 8
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Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2019 05:12:35 -0700
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From: Cathy Scott <catsatbow at gmail.com>
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Subject: [Tweeters] California Condors
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I was down in Marble Canyon late September and unexpectedly got to see
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Condors, with two flying directly over me!! Got some great photos.
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Cathy Scott
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Message: 9
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Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 08:21:33 -0700
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From: crazydave65 <crazydave65 at inbox.com>
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To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
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Subject: [Tweeters] Swans
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It's definitely fall.? The corn has all been mowed at the end of neal road
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in fall city/ king county, and we were buzzed by a group of around ten
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swans at 7:30 this morning, Oct 2.? Foggy and dim so can't say for certain,
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but they seemed like trumpeters.Regards,TCrazy dave 6 5 at inbox daught
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com.Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
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