Hi, Tweets

Yesterday, Patricia Lott and I also birded the Skagit/Samish area to scout
for a field trip she is leading on Saturday. We saw much of what Charlie
Wright saw plus the following (which he may have seen, too): two small (ca
12-15) flocks of BARN SWALLOWS, one at the headquarters area, the other off
Maupin Road on Fir Island; eight+ GREEN-WINGED TEAL in Bow, a NORTHERN
SHRIKE on Maupin Road, one MERLIN at eye level on a post going into
Jensen's Access and another near Maupin Road, two PEREGRINES, one on
Bayview-Edison Road, the other on Fir Island Road. We were trying to decide
whether we had seen, at the end of the day, more bald eagles or more great
blue herons; both were all over the place and it was a toss-up as to numbers.

The interesting thing was that we were at the West 90 earlier in the day,
ca. noonish, and saw only three short-eared owls; wish we'd stayed til late
afternoon - 30 is impressive!

Cheers, Diann

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Diann MacRae
Olympic Vulture Study
22622 - 53rd Avenue S.E.
Bothell, WA 98021
tvulture at vei.net
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