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May 12, 2014
The 33rd bird on our Maple Leaf Reservoir Park bird list showed up on Mother’s Day. It’s a Barn Swallow, and there were three of them catching bugs at the upper park Sunday afternoon. From the Cornell Lab of Ornithology: Glistening cobalt blue above and tawny below, Barn Swallows dart gracefully over fields, barnyards, and …
May 9, 2014
Just Thursday we were (again) wishing for an Osprey – and shortly after 4 p.m. today it arrived. Ospreys (fish hawks) are not uncommon visitors to Maple Leaf in the spring and summer. They have many times been seen perched on the Comcast tower on Roosevelt Way Northeast, eating fish taken from Lake Union. See …
May 8, 2014
This weekend we spotted a different bird from Maple Leaf Reservoir Park – a Sharp-shinned Hawk. From the Cornell Lab of Ornithology: A tiny hawk that appears in a blur of motion—and often disappears in a flurry of feathers. That’s the Sharp-shinned Hawk, the smallest hawk in North America and a daring, acrobatic flier. Not …
May 7, 2014
Contractors for Sound Transit this morning closed a lane near the popular Interstate 5 entrance off Northeast 80 Street to install monitoring equipment to check on Brenda as she tunnels her way south from the Maple Leaf Portal. “As early as Wednesday, May 7, Sound Transit’s contractor will install equipment along the Northgate Link tunnel …