This afternoon I went around with Carol Schulz hoping for an interesting
migrant. The trail along South Pioneer Way near South Prairie was quite slow
with nothing too special. We walked from the intersection just north of
Crocker towards South Prairie to the big clearing, about 2 miles. We then
moved northward and hit a few spots in the Kent Valley, ending the day with
two Pectoral Sandpipers and a Yellow-headed Blackbird.

Thursday, 13 May 2004 (1:00pm-8:30pm)
Pierce & King County - 82 species.
Mostly sunny; almost no wind; 68? F.

FOOTHILLS TRAIL, SOUTH PRAIRIE (3:00-6:00)
Common Merganser (1f.)-South Prairie Creek.
Ring-necked Pheasant (1)-heard.
Band-tailed Pigeon (10)
Mourning Dove (1)
Vaux's Swift (8)
Rufous Hummingbird (4)
Red-breasted Sapsucker (1)
Hairy Woodpecker (1)-extremely dark individual.
Pacific-slope Flycatcher (10)-on territory.
Hutton's Vireo (1)
Warbling Vireo (4)-on territory.
Northern Rough-winged Swallow (2)
Red-breasted Nuthatch (2)
Brown Creeper (5)
Marsh Wren (3)
American Dipper (2)
Swainson's Thrush (12): all migrants.
Cedar Waxwing (20)
Orange-crowned Warbler (1)
Yellow Warbler (12)
Yellow-rumped Warbler (3-Aud.)
Black-throated Grey Warbler (2)-on territory.
Wilson's Warbler (5)
Western Tanager (5)
Spotted Towhee (1)
Black-headed Grosbeak (13): all males; most seemed to be migrants.
Purple Finch (4)
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Western Tiger Swallowtail (2)
Pale Swallowtail (1)
Cabbage White (2)
Sara Orangetip (1)
Spring Azure (4)
Satyr Comma (4)

M STREET/EMERALD DOWNS, AUBURN (7:00-7:20)
Greater Yellowlegs (4)
Lesser Yellowlegs (1)
Spotted Sandpiper (1): unusual location.
Least Sandpiper (5)
Pectoral Sandpiper (1)
American Pipit (2)

BOEING PONDS, KENT (7:50-8:30)
Cinnamon Teal (2: 1m., 1f.)
Green-winged Teal (1f.)
Ruddy Duck (2f.)
Pied-billed Grebe (1)
American Kestrel (1m.)
Greater Yellowlegs (2)
Lesser Yellowlegs (1)
Spotted Sandpiper (12)
Western Sandpiper (3)
Least Sandpiper (1)
Pectoral Sandpiper (1)
Yellow-headed Blackbird (1): male perched in shrubs.
--
Charlie Wright
Sumner, WA
charlie at birdwright.com