Hi folks

I also saw a COMMON MURRE today, just off the parking lot at Golden Gardens Park. Also a RED-NECKED GREBE. Not much else there but the gulls and pigeons.

Large flocks of CEDAR WAXWINGS at the locks in the gardens, thats a first this year, a BEWICKS WREN or two, BUSHTITS, Ten or so STELLER'S JAYS, MEW and HEERMAN'S GULLS, a handfull of DC COMORANTS, a juv BELTED KINGFISHER was posing nicely and two GREAT BLUE HERONS in the trees.

I find the Mew Gull spacing on the cable west of the spillway interesting. They seem to have a personal space of about 18 inches like we do. When a gull flies in the others adjust, with a bit of fussing, to the original spacing. Sometimes there are 30 to 50 Mew Gulls on the cable, all ages, always adjusting their "personal space". Every so often a larger gull or a heron flies in and goofs everything up. It's fun to watch.

Cliff Drake
Seattle, WA
cliff at cliffdrake.net