Dear Tweeters,
Yesterday at the DeBay's Slough Access (off Francis
Road between Mount Vernon and Clear Lake in Skagit
County) there was a nice sparrow flock. A tan-striped
White-throated Sparrow was in a flock of
Golden-crowned Sparrows, along with one or two
White-crowned. There was also a Lincoln's or two, and
lots of juncoes and Song Sparrows. Oddly enough, there
were hardly any ducks; just a couple of weeks ago,
there were over a thousand dabblers (Mallards, Wigeon,
and Pintail) coming in to the pond at the same time of
day (late afternoon).

Yesterday I noticed a nice puddle about halfway along
the trail to the duck blind. I thought I spotted a
rare sandpiper in the mud, but of course it was an
American Robin, not a Curlew Sandpiper or a Red Knot!
Anyway, it will be a good shorebird spot in a month or
so if we keep getting rain. Last spring we had very
few good puddles in Skagit County for shorebirds.



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Yours truly,

Gary Bletsch

near Lyman (Skagit County), Washington

garybletsch at yahoo.com


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