Awesome day on Whidbey Island and around the Skagit Flats: 107 species.
The more interesting birds included:

Mukilteo:

270 Heerman's gulls flying south

Useless Bay:

800+ red-necked phalaropes - yes 800 and yes I counted them twice to
make sure.
1 Baird's sandpiper
1 whimbrel
1 juv. red knot
5 western tanagers
1 pacific-slope flycatcher
1 yellow-rumped warbler
2 ospreys
15 lesser yellowlegs
6 greater yellowlegs
140 caspian terns
200+ Bonaparte's gulls
100+ California gulls
15 common loons
1 Cooper's hawk
1 sharp-shinned hawk

South Whidbey State Park:

21 red crossbills
lots of brown creepers
lots of Swainson's thrushes

Crockett Lake:

109 western sandpipers
14 semi-palmated plovers
12 least sandpipers
1 peregrine - hence the lack of shorebirds

Penn Cove:

12 black turnstones
1 surfbird
4 white-winged scoter
250 surf scoter


Hastie Lake Road Boat Launch:

2 horned grebes
20+ red-necked grebes
4 pacific loons
300+ Heerman's gulls

Swantown Lake:

30 Heerman's gulls
74 western sandpipers
3 northern harriers
17 sanderling
8 northern pintail

Swinhomish Channel - north side:

200+ caspian terns

Skagit City Pond

10 blue-winged teal
1 spotted sandpiper
4 long-billed dowitchers
2 least sandpipers

Fir Island - Jensen access & Fir Island Farm Wildlife Area

1200 western sandpipers
70 black-bellied plover
70+ american wigeon
1 western meadowlark
1 mourning dove
3 yellow-headed blackbirds
1 common raven
2 merlins
1 short-billed dowitcher
4 pectoral sandpipers

Stanwood Sewage Ponds

27 red-necked phalaropes

Phew,

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