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I wasn't able to locate the Nashville Warbler on Sunday afternoon but was surprised at the beginning of the marsh walk by an inmature Coopers Hawk who swooped down right in front of me than perched in a tree about 20 feet away long enough for several good digital photos.

Ann Marie Wood
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> This evening, Alan and I checked out the Edmonds Marsh and Waterfront.
> We arrived a little too close to high tide for the best birding, however
> we enjoyed Caspian and one Common Terns, plus the return of our variety
> of gulls. At the Marsh, we had a female NASHVILLE WARBLER in the big
> western-most willow on the row. Alan saw her movements up 30' and I
> spished her in to within 15' at eye level. It was the complete eye ring
> we both noted first, then the smooth blending of yellow, white, and
> gray. I convinced him of my ID with the yellow undertail coverts and a
> white belly, no wing bars. Could be a first year bird. We heard Rail
> in two places by the willows and Snipe under the marshy end of Station
> 1. As we relaxed in the approaching dusk, a Sharpie soared overhead
> trying to spot something, a Wren or Blackbird maybe, in the reeds and
> settling for one of the finches in the blackberries south of the creek.
> Killdeer flew overhead, calling. A perfect evening.
>
> Patricia Lott
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