For the primary time shortly, we’re commemorating a Seahawks afternoon with a gallery of fowl images despatched by WSB readers, beginning with sea and shore birds:
Above, a Surf Scoter, photographed by Tom Trulin close to Lincoln Park. Below, Horned Grebes, which James Tilley discovered close to Jack Block Park:
A Surfbird off Alki, from Robin Sinner:
Susan Kemp noticed this Great Blue Heron off Constellation Park:
Cindy Roberts photographed this Western Meadowlark at Don Armeni:
Continuing inland, this immature Cedar Waxwing is from Jerry Simmons:
Mark Dale photographed this Cooper’s Hawk in his Gatewood yard:
An Anna’s Hummingbird is visiting a fuschia plant in Samantha Wren‘s photograph:
At Lincoln Park, Jamie Kinney discovered this Barred Owl:
And we’ve been receiving extra images of the roaming Guinea Fowl that some are mistaking for turkeys. Kathy Humphrey despatched this one:
Huge thanks once more to everybody who continues sending fowl images – [email protected] – we use some in each day preview lists, too.
Meantime, a bird-health word. Krystal despatched this final evening:
I needed to let you recognize, in case you needed to share it in your Sunday fowl report (my favourite!), that we’ve noticed conjunctivitis within the House Finches within the Sunrise Heights/Westwood neighborhood at our feeder. We rapidly took our feeders down and our neighbors did the identical, and we’ll hold ours down for the following few weeks. We at all times wash our feeders in-between fillings, however the advice from Cornell suggests leaving the feeders down for a pair weeks, and in addition recommends towards feeders with bigger ports the place the birds can rub their heads on the openings, equivalent to tube feeders. More info here.
