Tweets,
Yesterday morning I saw a Wandering Tattler in among other shorebirds at
the usual shorebird spot near the coast guard gate at Ediz Hook. While its
not that uncommon for the county, this is the first Tattler I've seen on
the hook so my question is how often are they reported from there? Also
present was a BL Kittiwake. In light of hearing a couple of glacous gull
reports recently I thought I'd mention an observation from yesterday. I
encountered 3 second year GW Gulls that had primaries worn enough so that
they were pure white, giving a superficial impression of Glacous Gull. The
rest of the bird was GW, it is my experience that these birds can show up
with some regularity if looked for hard enough during this time period.
Glacous is very rare if not unheard of during this period and these worn
GW are probably the likely culprit. Also at the hook I saw my first
Sanderling of the fall migration.

Scott Downes
sdownes at u.washington.edu
Seattle WA

"Birds don't read bird books. (That's why they are seen doing things they
are not supposed to do)." -Mary Wood