Hello Everyone,



My wife, Wendy, and I just returned from the Samish and Skagit areas. We
located the adult gray morph gyrfalcon at about 11am just north of the "90"
and at 4pm just east of the "90". In the morning it was harassing the
harriers. In the afternoon, we watched it for about thirty minutes as it
appeared to be attempting to hunt on its own only to be driven away by the
harriers. Go figure!



We looked for, but did not locate, the sharp-tailed sandpiper described
yesterday by Charlie Wright in the wet fields at the intersection of Farm to
Market and Sundown Roads. There were numerous gulls, dunlins, black-bellied
plovers and one tundra swan in the field to the southwest of this
intersection.



The wind kept the dickie birds under cover at the Skagit Game Range. I
heard, but could not locate, a mountain chickadee on the dike about a
half-mile from the parking lot.



On the way back home we observed a peregrine falcon near the junction of
Bayview-Edison Road and Highway 20. It had a dark (black?) left leg band
with some numerals or lettering on it. Sorry, but we couldn't make out the
details.



Dave Parent, Freeland