Dear Tweeters,
Members of a WOS field trip enjoyed good birding in Skagit County today. At Rosario Head was a Yellow-billed Loon at close range, eating a big red fish. There were also a Common Loon, two Pacifics, and quite a few Red-throated Loons present there, which made for eighty percent of the world's loon species, all visible from the head. Although we could not find any Ancient Murrelets, there were several each of Marbled Murrelet, Rhinoceros Auklet, Common Murre, and Pigeon Guillemot, as well as all three cormorants.

At Fir Island Snow Goose Preserve was at least one Lapland Longspur with American Pipits. We could not find the Cassin's Finch at the Game Range, and decided not even to try for the Vesper Sparrow.

Other fun birds included big flocks of Snow Geese (Fir Island), Northern Pintail, Black-bellied Plover and Dunlin (Samish Flats), and two Tundra Swans with seventy Trumpters near the Worline Road.

Good birding,
Gary Bletsch





Yours truly,

Gary Bletsch

near Lyman (Skagit County), Washington

garybletsch at yahoo.com


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