Seems the good weather over the past few days has resulted in most of
the shorebirds moving out. The total for the day was 98 species - not
bad. Highlights were:

Mukilteo - Clinton Ferry, 07.00 - 07.20

2 marbled murrelets
1 Heerman's gull

South Whidbey State Park 10.45 - 12.10. This place was the highlight of
the day. It was jumping with songbirds. The Hammond's are best described
as likely. The birds were very gray and had rounded heads though their
plumage was not in the best condition. The trees in this park are
impressive. All the dead ones have extensive excavations by woodpeckers.
Definitely worth spending some time here after the campers leave.

1 brown creeper
1 orange-crowned warbler
3 Townsend's warblers
2 Hammond's flycatchers
2 western wood peewees
2 red-eyed vireos
4 Hutton's vireos
5 dark-eyed junco's
10+ red crossbills,
10+ ruby-crowned kinglets
Lots of Swainson's thrushes calling

Crockett Lake: 14.40 - 16.40. Only 1 adult western sandpiper was seen -
earlier in the week it was mostly adults.

12 northern pintail
300+ least sandpipers
250+ western sandpipers
3 semi-palmated sandpipers
15 semi-palmated plovers
69 long-billed dowitchers
2 red crossbills
2 lesser yellowlegs
3 northern harriers
4+ northern rough-winged swallows
4 Bonaparte's gulls

Penn Cove 17.00

2 red-necked grebes
1 mourning dove

Hastie Lake 17.10 - 17.20. This is a seasonal pond on Hastie Lake Road,
not the permanent pond at the junction of Hastie Lake Road and Highway
20.

21 long-billed dowitchers
1 lesser yellowlegs
5 least sandpipers
12 killdeer.

Swantown Lake 17.30 - 17.40

13 western sandpipers
2 least sandpipers
14 dowitchers
3 lesser scaup

West 90 Ponds, Sammish Island, 19.00 - 19.50

123 long-billed dowitchers
1 juv. Wilson's phalarope
28 lesser yellowlegs
12 greater yellowlegs
20 northern pintail
8 green-winged teal
22 western sandpipers
10 least sandpipers
80+ mallard.

Fir Island, Jensen Access 20.05 - 21.20 Most of the birds were scattered
and the black-bellied plovers were crouching out in the plowed field on
the corner of Maupin Road and Fir Island road which indicates that a
peregrine was probably hunting in the area.

315 common mergansers
1 american bittern
10 black-bellied plovers
80+ dowitchers - mostly long-billed
1 greater yellowlegs
40+ least sandpipers.


Stuart
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Stuart MacKay, Seattle, WA
stuart at blarg.net