Subject: [Tweeters] Least Tern in Seattle
Date: Mon Jun 1 17:28:45 PDT 2020
From: Nadine Drisseq - drisseq.n at gmail.com

Got it! Be warned if you park at Montlake park and walk in from marsh
Island there is a lot of mud. Thank you Michael for pulling me out that is
definitely an experience I will remember - great bird!!

On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 17:18 Dave Slager <dave.slager at gmail.com> wrote:


> Can confirm great views of the least tern for the past 90 min from the sr

> 520 bike trail where it crosses canoe path E of foster island. Bird is

> spending most time perched on submerged stump, and occasionally foraging in

> the canoe pathway within 30 feet of the bike trail. Left the bird there 10

> minutes ago.

>

> Dave Slager

> Seattle

>

> On Mon, Jun 1, 2020, 16:18 Michael Hobbs <birdmarymoor at gmail.com> wrote:

>

>> Looking at it now from the NE corner of Foster Island. I came from East

>> Montlake Park, but the Marsh Island trail seems to have sunk. Recommend

>> TALL rubber boots, bare feet, or a willingness to just get thoroughly wet

>> and muddy up nearly to your knees. At 4 pm, I was able to take the

>> Montlake exit and turn right on Hamlin. But police closures are a risk.

>>

>> The bird is sitting on a short wooden post to the right of two taller

>> wooden posts, to the east of the northern part of Foster Island. It should

>> be visible from the 520 bridge trail too.

>>

>> - Michael Hobbs

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