Hi Tweeters,

I made a swing through Brady Loop Road at lunchtime on Friday, May 7th and
found some nice migrants - what I didn't find were the flock of whimbrels I
had seen on Tuesday. However, the two pair of Black-bellied Plovers were
still present in the field on the west side of the Foster Road - Brady Loop
intersection. Definitely worth looking at in their dazzling breeding
plumage.

Sightings of interest for Brady Loop road, 3/10 of a mile east of Foster
road at the curve in the willow thickets:

4 Lazuli Buniting - male singing, 2 pair
3 Black-headed Grosbeaks
2 Yellow Warblers - singing
20 American Goldfinch - singing
2 House Finch - singing (talk about a lot of finch songs all at once)
110 Savannah Sparrows (between this spot and Foster Road and there were
many more on all the rest of the fencelines on the loop!)
2 Common Ravens

Good Birding,

Marcus Roening
Tacoma, WA
marcus.d.roening at gsk.com