At 1:50 PM -0700 04/27/99, S. Downes wrote:

>This morning there were quite a good variety of shorebirds at the fill,
>period was about 6:30 AM-8:00 AM.
>1 Snipe
>1 Greater Yellowlegs
>1 Lesser Yellowlegs (seen about 11:00 AM)
>2 Western Sandpiper
>13 Least Sandpiper
>Plus the usual Killdeer
>6 Shorebird species, the migration must be well under way in Seattle.
>Other birds of note were 2 Yellowthroats and a calling Sora.

Scott and tweeters:

Sounds a lot like what JoLynn and I found at Spencer Island on Saturday
morning:
12 Greater Yellowlegs
15 Dunlins (all or most of the way into alternate plumage)
10 Least Sandpipers
1 Long-billed Dowitcher (rich red underparts all the way to the vent,
barred sides of breast, tail banded more dark than light, silent)
several Killdeers
2 calling Virginia Rails
Common Yellowthroats singing
Marsh Wrens nest-building
Hordes of nesting Tree Swallows
Bonaparte's Gulls in dapper alternate plumage

but no migrant songbirds.

Hal Opperman