Sherry Thiel and I did some local birding today starting at the
Gog-li-hi-ti wetland where we had ;
Thayer's Gulls
1 Western Gull,
1 Herring Gull
1 Mew Gull
3 American Goldfinches
We then stopped off at Marine Park on the waterfront where we had;
10 Bonaparte's Gulls
40+ Mew Gulls
3 Rhinocerous Auklets
Red Necked Grebes
Barrow's Goldeneyes
Pigeon Guillemots
Further down by the old Asarco Plant we had;
16 Black Scoters (20 to 50 feet off shore)
12 Black Turnstones
4 Horned Grebes
1 Common Merganser
Red Breasted Mergansers
1 Hooded Merganser
Our last stop was at Titlow Park + Beach where we had;
12 Mew Gulls
1 Ring Billed Gull
50+ Western Grebes
6 Pelagic Cormorants

David Hayden
Lakewood, WA
dtvhm at nwrain.com