12:27pm start - water level mid and rising (low - 1.9ft at 9:42; high -
11.1ft at 16:22) - all mudflats visible
12:48pm end

Tweeters,
Mostly high overcast (cloudy-bright), pleasant, with almost no wind at
Turning Basin #3. Not much activity, except for the fisherman hauling in
one of the four gillnets strung out in TB3, and a female BELTED
KINGFISHER rattling around the east shoreline. A PEREGRINE FALCON was on
the top catwalk railing of the west power tower (Hamm Creek), tight
against one of the large vertical supports. Great place to roost, I
suppose, when it's time to catch some rays.

No Mallards or Canada Geese anywhere - not a usual occurrence.

I found the recent remains of a pigeon along the south fenceline of the
Boeing property. Looks as if the PEFA was active over the weekend.

Birds seen during this scan include the following:
Domestic goose
Common Merganser (3)
Double-crested Cormorant (2; flyover)
Peregrine Falcon
Mew Gull (6)
Glaucous-winged Gull (14)
Rock Pigeon (52; 30-40 consistently hang out around one of the Boeing
buildings right next to TB3, but I don't always see them all to count
them)
Belted Kingfisher (2; female patrolling the east-south shoreline; male
on a piling on the west side)
American Crow (6)
Bushtit (2)
European Starling
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow (5)

May all your birds be identified,

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