11:27 start - water level high and rising (7:05 low tide - 4.0ft; 13:33
high tide - 11.9ft); no mudflats visible

Tweeters,
Heavy overcast, damp-cool, and fourteen gillnets set at Turning Basin
#3. Looks as if all of TB3 was covered by gillnets today: all the way
from the Boeing bridge upstream to the power substation on the down
side; the most nets I've ever seen here. A few Mallards and a couple of
Gadwall were the only waterfowl actually on the river.

I've noticed during the past couple of weeks that the flock of about
10-30 Rock Pigeons that usually hang out on one of the buildings here
hasn't been around. A second pile of ROPI feathers was close to the
building last week: perhaps the local Peregrine Falcon has been keeping
the ROPIs spooked. I did notice that the flock of pigeons that's usually
on the power lines south of TB3 has increased in size; could be that the
locals have joined them.

Bird seen during this scan include the following:
Domestic goose
Mallard (13)
Gadwall (4)
Double-crested Cormorant (6; all flybys)
Great Blue Heron (2; both of which were in the weeping willows at the
south edge of TB3)
Peregrine Falcon (east-bank power tower when I arrived; left at or
before 11:31)
Glaucous-winged Gull (10)
Rock Pigeon (73)
European Starling

May all your birds be identified,

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