Hi folks,

Got back from the coast (razor clam tide....) at 10:30, so spent a half-hour
walking the edge of Mud Bay, along the trail that starts at the
Park-and-Ride. About a 1/4-mile trail with the bay on one side, and a
'business park' behind you. Too nice a day to rush to the office! The
'best' bird I saw was a great egret that landed just across the mud flat
from me and poked around looking for its lunch. I saw:

Great Blue Heron
Great Egret (**1**)
Canada Goose (B.c. moffitti)
Bufflehead
Scaup sp. ('way out there)
Dunlin
Peeps ('way out there...)
Glaucous-winged Gulls
Caspian Terns (2 on mudflat)
Red-tailed Hawk
Osprey
Kingfisher
Downy Woodpeckers
American Crow
Violet-green Swallow
Robin
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Bewick's Wren
Black-capped Chickadee
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Starling
Orange-crowned Warbler
Song Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Puget Sound White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow (1)
Brewer's Blackbird
American Goldfinch
Pine Siskin
House Finch
Red Crossbill (pair gathering nesting materials)

Jon. Anderson
Olympia, Washington
festuca at olywa.net