Hi tweets,

I birded bits and pieces of the above counties on
Saturday, starting early Saturday morning looking for
owls. Not a bad day. I ended up seeing or hearing
131 species despite getting a blown out tire and being
stuck in a ditch on Crab Creek road for three hours.
It took 8 people lifting the front end of my car and
someone else pulling it with a pickup to get us out.

Highlights included:

Brandt's Cormorant: Still one near the Edmonds
fishing pier.

Pelagic Cormorant: One flyby at the Edmonds
Waterfront

Swainson's Hawk: An intermediate morph bird on Dodson
road just south of Frenchman hills road.

Turkey Vulture: Twelve birds perched in a tree off
I-90 exit 80, on the road towards Roslyn.

Greater Yellowlegs: One at the montlake fill. It was
along the dirt road which leads to the gravel parking
lot.

Glaucous Gull: On the lawn in front of Mercer Hall
near the University bridge.

Williamson's Sapsucker: A male and a female near
Roslyn.

White-breasted Nuthatch: Same place as the
Williamson's Sapsuckers.

Say's Phoebe: One pair at the west end of Crab Creek
road, near Beverly.

Loggerhead Shrike: Several along Crab Creek road.

Palm Warbler: Montlake Fill

Common Yellowthroat: My first of the year. Also at
Montlake.

Black-throated Gray Warbler: One at the Deer Creek
Fish Hatchery in Edmonds.

White-throated Sparrow: Shoreview Park in Shoreline.

Vesper Sparrow: Dodson road, south of Frenchman Hills
road.

All in all not a bad day, but I didn't go to a lot of
places I wanted to due to the time. Notable misses
which were looked for included:

Sage Sparrow, Sage Thrasher, Tricolored Blackbird (at
para ponds in Othello), Long-billed Curlew, and
Burrowing Owl (NE of George)

Michael Dossett
Bothell, Washington
Phainopepla at yahoo.com

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