12:37pm start - Water level exceptionally low (-4ft-lowest tides of the year) and going down
1:12pm end

Tweeters,
Idyllic outside: warm, sunny, light northerly breeze, with the lowest water level I've ever seen on the river. Today's environment brought out the Canada Geese: saw a total of 50, including 32 goslings of various ages. (One gosling was very much younger than any of the others--still in "yellow down" plumage. Most others were either gray fuzzy or just molted out of that stage.) Lots of Rock Pigeons and American Crows exploring the mudflats.

Birds seen during this scan include the following:
Canada Goose (50; including 32 goslings)
Gadwall
Mallard (11)
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron (2)
Osprey (2)
Glaucous-winged Gull (6)
Rock Pigeon (11)
American Crow (9)
Violet-green Swallow (2)
Cliff Swallow (2; but these are very difficult to count. Definitely nesting under the Boeing bridge.)
Barn Swallow
Bewick's Wren
European Starling (2)
Song Sparrow (2)
Red-winged Blackbird (2)
Brown-headed Cowbird (keep seeing only a male bird; must be a female here someplace)
House Finch
American Goldfinch (2)

May all your birds be identified,

Denis DeSilvis
Seattle, WA
mailto:denis.j.desilvis at boeing.com