[Tweeters] Green heron names Vol 252, Issue

[Sally Walters via Tweeters]

Green heron’s naming woes… I'm old enough to remember the green-backed heron’s name change. Given the brief small amount of green …. Woe with me! Perhaps the gray green-backed rufous necked heron. Multi colored heron?
Sally M. Walters
Sacramento CA

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On Aug 18, 2025, at 12:00 PM, via Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu> wrote:

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Today's Topics:

 1. Green Heron Name? (Jim Betz via Tweeters)
 2. Re: Green Heron Name? (Elaine Anderson via Tweeters)
 3. Cedar River Mouth shorebirding 8.17.25
    (MARVIN BREECE via Tweeters)
 4. POPULAR SCIENCE: Bald eagles stun scientists with    bizarre
    migration pattern (Dan Reiff via Tweeters)
 5. DISREGARD - Missing msgs #1 (Rob Faucett via Tweeters)
 6. Re: DISREGARD - Missing msgs #2 [was] #1
    (Rob Faucett via Tweeters)
 7. Edmonds Roundup - July 2025 (Carol Riddell via Tweeters)
 8. Blackberries (via Tweeters)
 9. Off-Topic: Backroads from Ellensburg to Wenatchee?
    (dick via Tweeters)
10. Vaux's Migration begins (Larry Schwitters via Tweeters)


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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2025 12:37:12 -0700
From: Jim Betz via Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
To: via Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Subject: [Tweeters] Green Heron Name?
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Larry,

? We, the people in the field, don't get to choose the names for the
birds.? It's best to just

accept whatever name they have rather than lobby for a change ... ????
At least the name

of the Green Heron hasn't changed like the Marsh Hawk and some others
...? - Jim in Skagit




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Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2025 13:16:18 -0700
From: Elaine Anderson via Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Green Heron Name?
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I didn?t get the sense that Larry was lobbying for a change, but that he
was having a bit of fun with physical descriptors.

I never did understand where ?green heron? came from!

Elaine

On Sun, Aug 17, 2025 at 12:37?PM Jim Betz via Tweeters <
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> Larry,

> 

>  We, the people in the field, don't get to choose the names for the

> birds.  It's best to just

> 

> accept whatever name they have rather than lobby for a change ... ???

> At least the name

> 

> of the Green Heron hasn't changed like the Marsh Hawk and some others

> ...  - Jim in Skagit

> 

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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2025 13:38:52 -0700
From: MARVIN BREECE via Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
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Subject: [Tweeters] Cedar River Mouth shorebirding 8.17.25
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Today (8.17.25<http://17.25>) at the mouth of the Cedar River in Renton:


Least Sandpiper - a few
Western Sandpiper - a few juveniles & 1 adult
Semipalmated Sandpiper - 2 juv     https://flic.kr/p/2ro64eE   &   https://flic.kr/p/2ro5uVA
Long-billed Dowitcher - 1 adult
Solitary Sandpiper - 1 juv    https://flic.kr/p/2ro4i3M    &   https://flic.kr/p/2rnZ3aQ





Marv Breece
Tukwila, WA
marvbreece at q.com<mailto:marvbreece at q.com>

....that the elected might never form to themselves an interest separate from the electors ...
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Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2025 13:42:05 -0700
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Subject: [Tweeters] POPULAR SCIENCE: Bald eagles stun scientists with
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Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2025 15:43:29 -0700
From: Rob Faucett via Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
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Subject: [Tweeters] DISREGARD - Missing msgs #1
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Hi Folks - Sorry to trouble you.  We?re trying to figure out the missing messages problem.

MAKE PLAIN TEXT = ENABLED

--
Rob Faucett
Seattle, WA
(206) 619-5569



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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2025 15:45:55 -0700
From: Rob Faucett via Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: [Tweeters] DISREGARD - Missing msgs #2 [was] #1
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Last one.
?
Rob Faucett
+1(206) 619-5569
robfaucett at mac.com
Seattle, WA  98105


> On Aug 17, 2025, at 3:44?PM, Rob Faucett <robfaucett at mac.com> wrote:

> 

> ?Hi Folks - Sorry to trouble you.  We?re trying to figure out the missing messages problem.

> 

> MAKE PLAIN TEXT = ENABLED

> 

> --

> Rob Faucett

> Seattle, WA

> (206) 619-5569

> 



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Message: 7
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2025 18:47:42 -0700
From: Carol Riddell via Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
To: tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Subject: [Tweeters] Edmonds Roundup - July 2025
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Hi Tweeters,

With July additions we have reached 170 species for our Edmonds 2025 list. In taxonomic order, the new species are:

Vaux?s Swift (code 3), 1 at Edmonds marsh, 7-3-2025.

Semipalmated Sandpiper (code 3), 2 at Edmonds marsh, 7-1-2025 (critical field marks described).

Leach?s Storm-Petrel (code 5), 1 at waterfront, 7-16-2025 (critical field marks described).

American White Pelican (code 4), approximately 35 flying over Edmonds marsh, 7-5-2025 (ID photos).

Of interest: A Green Heron (code 3) was at Edmonds marsh throughout the month, with two seen together on 7-10-2025.

Declined: Short-billed Dowitcher (code 4), Lesser Yellowlegs (code 4), Baird?s Sandpiper (code 3), Bank Swallow (code 4), Northern Rough-winged Swallow (code 3). These were just ticks on eBird checklists with no documentation. They could be data entry errors, misidentifications, or correct identifications. Without some documentation, we cannot add these species to the year list.

As always, I appreciate it when birders get in touch with me to share sightings, photos, or recordings. It helps us build our collective year list. If you would like a copy of our 2025 city checklist, with 283 species, please request it from checklistedmonds at gmail dot com. The 2025 checklist, with sightings through July, is in the bird information box at the Olympic Beach Visitor Station at the base of the public pier.

Good birding,

Carol Riddell
Edmonds, WA
cariddellwa at gmail dot com

Abundance codes: (1) Common, (2) Uncommon, (3) Harder to find, usually seen annually, (4) Rare, 5+ records, (5) Fewer than 5 records
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Message: 8
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2025 20:46:50 -0700
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Subject: [Tweeters] Blackberries
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The discussion about Himalayan blackberries sufficiently addressed, I?ll just add that I was taught by the natural resources staff for the Forest Steward program on Mercer Island the following method of removing blackberries:

Cut the canes starting from the top into 8? to 12? pieces.  Let them fall where they may.  When you?re down to about 8? left, dig out the roots.  Keep doing that over the area of work.  Rake up the pieces and root wads into a pile and let them compost on site.

I find this method prevents them from attaching to my sleeves, jacket, pants, hat, and what all.  Likewise prevents lots of cursing.  Lots of fun!

Carolyn Boatsman




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Message: 9
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2025 20:57:43 -0700
From: dick via Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
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Subject: [Tweeters] Off-Topic: Backroads from Ellensburg to Wenatchee?
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Does anyone know if there is a summertime route from Ellensburg to Wenatchee through the Colockum Area? Maybe accessing Mission Ridge from the South?ThanksDick, BellinghamSent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
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Message: 10
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2025 22:24:06 -0700
From: Larry Schwitters via Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
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Subject: [Tweeters] Vaux's Migration begins
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Every night since the rain hit Wagner and Selleck have been sheltering low thousands of swifts.

You don?t want to go to Selleck. You might want to go to Monroe.

Larry Schwitters  Issaquah

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