[Tweeters] Kinglet Encounters

[Hank Heiberg via Tweeters]

Sunday we birded at Juanita Bay Park in Kirkland.  We were about to walk past the large conifer just west of the restroom building when something dropped straight down from the conifer.  That something turned out to be a Golden-crowned Kinglet.  Then we realized that there were 4 Golden-crowned Kinglets on the ground near us.  They were unaware of us.  So we stood and watched them for a long time.  Two kinglets got within a foot or two of us.  Here is a photo of one of them.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ljcouple/54209745118/in/dateposted/

Earlier in December we had similar encounters with Golden-crowned Kinglets at Marymoor Park in Redmond.  One encounter was in the lawn north of the mansion.  The second encounter was along the slough when kinglets landed in a tree a couple of feet from us.  Here’s a photo from the slough encounter.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ljcouple/54191515348/in/dateposted/

If anyone can ID the Juanita conifer for us, we would appreciate it.

Hank & Karen Heiberg
Issaquah, WA
hank dot heiberg at gmail




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