Hi Tweets,

I was interested in Joyce Lucas' posting about Black Turnstones on the
Everett waterfront on Christmas day. The following day Barbara and I
walked along the shore at Alki and observed two Black Turnstones (surely
not the same birds?) hanging out with a flock of about two dozen
Surfbirds. We walked a loop from the bluff above Alki to the shore, then
north past Duwamish head and back up California Ave. We spotted 32
species altogether, including a late Townsend's warbler.

Red-necked grebe
Horned grebe
Western grebe
Double-crested cormorant
Mallard
Surf scoter
Barrow's goldeneye
Bufflehead
Red-tailed hawk
Black turnstone
Surfbird
Ring-billed gull
California gull
Rock dove
Downy woodpecker
Northern flicker
Steller's jay
American crow
Cedar waxwing
American robin
Starling
Bushtit
Ruby-crowned kinglet
Golden-crowned kinglet
Black-capped chickadee
House sparrow
American goldfinch
House finch
Townsend's warbler
Song sparrow
Dark-eyed junco
Spotted towhee

Paul Webster
PWebst25 at concentric.net