Linda and I went birding with the kids in the middle of the day at Lummi Flats on the Lummi Reservation, with our permit of course, and saw two dark-morph Rough-legged Hawks and a regular, light morph Rough-legged with a broken primary on its left wing. We had one really great look at it with the sun behind us on Red River Road. Also saw a Western Meadowlark in a bush next to the dirt road close to the aquaculture dike, still kind of dull. Also many Harriers, no Short-eared Owls (we left by 3:00) and a lot of ravens, some of them blatantly engaged in making more ravens, wheeling and turning in the 20 to 25-knot wind.

We drove north up Ferndale Road from Slater, saw the two eagles guarding the nest on the river bank and then went west on Ulrick Road. A sub-adult Bald Eagle, third-year we thought, was sitting in a field fifty yards from a group of eight to ten swans. It took off toward the Ferndale water treatment ponds and elicited a response from a couple of Peregrines. We followed and near the park headquarters building just south of Pioneer Park we watched a couple of Red Tails in Love on the top of a skinny, tall fir toward the south-west corner of the park.

Goodness! Must be spring! Best show we've had for free since the old Sky River Rock Festival and Lighter than Air Faire went broke so many years ago.

Jack Kintner <kintner at nas.com> Blaine, WA
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