Tried in vain for a sharp-tailed sandpiper. The lack of standing water
over at Three Crabs restaurant did not help. The highlights:

1 american golden plover near Sunlight Beach, Whidbey Island.
1 parasitic jaeger in Useless Bay.
6 western meadowlarks on the south side of Crockett Lake
38 hooded mergansers on Crockett Lake
600+ red-necked grebes off Marrowstone Point
60+ pacific loons off Marrowstone Point
1 common term flying west past Point Wilson
9 eurasian wigeon at 3 Crabs Restaurant, Sequim
22 oldsquaw at 3 Crabs Restaurant, Sequim,

In more detail:

Dave Mackie Memorial County Park area, 7.30 - 9.30am

A surprisingly productive stretch of the coast. The shorebirds were
closer to Sunlight beach where there's some tidal areas that they may
have been displaced from.

1 purple finch
40 pine siskin
50+ dark-eyed juncos
3 fox sparrows
7 yellow-rumped warblers
5 northern flickers
2 Cooper's hawks
65 house finches

2 northern harriers
4 greater yellowlegs
4 long-billed dowitchers
5 dunlin
40 sanderling
1 AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER
4 black-bellied plover
2 Thayer's gulls
7 Heerman's gulls
4 California gulls
3 mew gulls
1 killdeer
11 California quail

25 red-breasted mergansers
7 common loons
9 pacific loons
8 red-throated loons
30 Bonaparte's gulls
1 PARASITIC JAEGER
1 red-necked grebe

Crockett Lake, 10.20 - 11.30am

7 long-billed dowitchers
40 dunlin
9 western sandpipers
1 semi-palmated plover
2 black-bellied plover
1 lesser yellowlegs
38 hooded mergansers
1 northern harrier
7 great blue herons
1 bald eagle
6 western meadowlarks
16 american pipits

Fort Casey State Park 11.35 - 12.10pm

Nice and quiet here now that all the tourists are gone.

2 common ravens
2 brown creepers
2 purple finches
44 pine siskins
1 hairy woodpecker
3 fox sparrows
2 hermit thrushes
30+ bushtits
2 chestnut-backed chickadees
5+ red-breasted nuthatches.

Keystone - Port Townsend Ferry, 12.30 - 1.10pm

Auks and other seabirds were surprisingly scarce. The stretch of water
close to Marrowstone Point and Fort Flager was thick with grebes and
loons however,

17 Heerman's gulls
5 white-winged scoter
1 marbled murrelet
600+ red-necked grebes
60+ pacific loons
3 oldsquaw
1 rhinocerous auklet.

Point Wilson 1.25 - 2.25 pm

Quite a good spot for seawatching though not fabulously productive this
time. The common tern was quite far offshore.

26 w, 9 e pacific loons
9 e red-breasted mergansers
13 w, 9 e Heerman's gulls
2 e surf scoter
19 w, 36 e common murres
4 e rhinocerous auklets
4 w, 3 e white-winged scoter
3 w, 4 e pigeon guillemots
5 w, 23 e pelagic cormorants
1 w common tern
1 e 'tundrius' peregrine falcon
1 w dunlin.

7 harlequin duck and 18 Bonaparte's gulls around the lighthouse.

3 Crabs Restaurant, Sequim 4.00 - 4.40pm

The plumages of the eurasian and 'hybrid' wigeon was quite variable so
the designation as to which category a bird fell into may be 'flexible'.
Some of the birds were still undergoing some body feather molt so maybe
later in the year will produce more conclusive results. Four
hybrids' is the largest number I have seen at this spot - previous best
was only 1. Also there were certainly more female eurasian wigeon but
the large number of birds combined with looking towards the afternoon
sun made viewing conditions less than ideal.

1300 american wigeon
8 male, 1 female eurasian wigeon
4 hybrid male american X eurasian wigeon
6 northern pintail
300 double-crested cormorants
2 common mergansers
22 oldsquaw

Stuart