Everett STP, 12.30 - 2.25pm

You now need a permit to get into the ponds. However they are easy to
get - simply visit the administration building before 4pm Monday -
Friday. There are a few restrictions: you need to check-in to the admin
building when visiting. Visiting hours are 7am-4.30pm 7 days a week. You
must phone ahead for weekend visits - the gates are locked so somebody
needs to be available to let you in.

The ponds along the north side of the lagoons are completely filled with
water so no chance of shorebirds, sigh. The plovers and dunlin were
roosting on the concrete walls on the south side of the largest
(easternmost) lagoon.

3 Barrow's goldeneye
650 ruddy ducks
85 gadwall
16 northern pintail
8 lesser scaup
370 northern shovelor
69 ring-necked ducks
3 bufflehead
9 canvasback
80+ american coot
13 green-winged teal
30+ mallard

630 Bonaparte's gulls
400+ mew gulls
1 Thayer's gull

1 AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER
53 black-bellied plover
11 dunlin
1 common snipe

2 red-tailed hawks
2 peregrines

35 cedar waxwings
2 purple finches
1 belted kingfisher
20 american pipits
2 pine siskin
1 great blue heron
1 Lincoln's sparrow
1 northern flicker

Other species seen: virginia rail (heard), marsh wren, song sparrow,
red-winged blackbird, european starling, glaucous-winged gull, american
robin, american crow.

Spencer Island, 2.35 - 3.30pm - South Loop Trail

2 pied-billed grebes
4 northern shovelor
7 lesser scaup
25 mallard
12 green-winged teal
1 bufflehead
1 american wigeon
41 american coot

1 Cooper's hawk
3 red-tailed hawks
1 northern harrier

6+ black-capped chickadees
3 ruby-crowned kinglets
4 Steller's jays
1 Bewick's wren
5 dark-eyed juncos
2 downy woodpeckers
1 PILEATED WOODPECKER
1 belted kingfisher
1 winter wren
90+ pine siskins


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