Greetings Tweeters!

Yesterday was a birding day for me with the highlight being two Lesser
Yellowlegs at the first slough just north of the intersection of Bay View - Edison
Road and Route 20. At the boat-works building in Bay View I was delighted to
see 6 GBHs all in a row at the edge of the exposed mudflat.

Early afternoon was spent walking the beach and lagoon trail at Ebey's
Landing Reserve west of Coupeville. I was about halfway past a flock of gulls,
which included 8 or 10 Heermanns, when they did a mass liftoff and flew out to
sea. Puzzled, I continued my stroll, then, a few moments later, a large bird
shadow passed over me and I looked up to see an adult Bald Eagle cruising the
coast line, heading for the tall pines on the ridge.

The lagoon was sparsely populated with a few Sanderlings and Killdeer. And I
spotted at least one Least Sandpiper. On the return trek via the beach I did
see a plover that I suspect was a Semipalmated Plover, though at first I
though it was a juvenile Wilson's. Have Wilson's Plovers ever been sighted this
far north?




Judy Rowe Taylor
Mukilteo, WA
caratfeathers at aol.com