Nice experience to share with your granddaughters.

On Fri, Oct 3, 2025, 7:15 AM Hank Heiberg via Tweeters <
tweeters at u.washington.edu> wrote:


> Yesterday we were sitting lakeside at Beaver Lake in the city of

> Sammamish talking with two of our granddaughters when a Cooper's Hawk

> landed on a nearby dock. I didn't have my camera, but managed the

> following video using my phone.

>

> https://www.flickr.com/photos/ljcouple/54827765207/in/dateposted/

>

> Seemed like strange behavior for a Cooper's Hawk. Maybe it thought that

> it was a Crow.

>

> A little while later a California Quail appeared walking along the

> shoreline right in front of us. I really regretted leaving my camera at

> home, but again used my phone to take the following photo.

>

> https://www.flickr.com/photos/ljcouple/54828870828/in/photostream/

>

> During the two hours that we were with our granddaughters we also had a

> Great Blue Heron fly by as did a Belted Kingfisher. Maybe our best

> incidental birding ever.

>

> Hank & Karen Heiberg

> Issaquah, WA

> hankdotheiberg

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