Hi tweets,

I spent some time this morning at the Montlake Fill.
I was dissappointed not to see as many peeps today as
Wednesday, but I'll go for quality over quantity any
day.

I was looking at a flock of about a dozen peeps, when
I started saying to myself, "Hey, this one lookes like
a semipalmated sa..." WEEP-WEEP! I looked up in time
to see a tringed flying straight toward me. At the
last second, it veered and landed about 30 feet or so
to my left. My jaw dropped right away as I realized
it was a Solitary Sandpiper. Of course, I looked back
at my peeps and the possible semipalmated, but they
were gone. The Solitary stayed for about 5 minutes
(maybe less?) moving around from pond to pond, and
never really becoming very settled into feeding before
taking off again into the wild blue...towards the
montlake cut.

Also seen this morning, was a Vesper Sparrow, very
briefly near the southeastern-most pond. It flushed
once and then disappeared into the grass not to be
seen again. Also, there was a single Dunlin on the
main pond when I left.

There were lots of passerines this morning too.
Warbling Vireos, a few Yellow Warblers, hordes of
Yellow-rumped Warblers, and a single Wilson's Warbler
which I first heard and eventually saw. The Eurasian
Green-winged Teal is still present. Also, atleast
three male and one female Cinnamon Teal were seen.

Michael Dossett
Bothell, Washington
Phainopepla at yahoo.com

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