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- From: markz@ssc.com (Mark Zenier)
- Subject: Re: Bird ID?
- Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 23:09:18 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.230918.14774@ssc.com>
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- Jeff Benedict (raoul@fangio.wa.com) wrote:
- : My mother lives in the White Center area just half-way between the
- : Duwamish River and the Sound. Every year for the last ten there has been
- : a pair of GB Herons living in a tree in the neighbor's back yard. We
- : figure that it is a good, protected nesting area near two feeding areas-
- : Seola Beach just around the corner south of the Fauntleroy ferry terminal
- : and Kellog Island on the Duwamish.
- :
- : It's quite a sight to see those big birds soaring through the home
- : neighborhood!
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- Don't leave out the noise.
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- "Grak, Grak, Graaaaaaaaaak"
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- It usually scares the first time hearer out of a couple of years
- growth.
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- Another thing to look for (and listen for) are Red Tailed Hawks.
- There seem to be a lot of them around this year.
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- Mark Zenier markz@ssc.wa.com
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