11:50am start - Water level mid but dropping with all mudflats visible;
low tide at 1:20pm (3.24ft)
12:38pm end

Tweeters,
A fine, partly sunny day with a very light southerly breeze at Turning
Basin #3 (TB3). Two OSPREYS were on the west power tower at Hamm Creek,
one with what looked to be a small coho (lots of which were jumping
today, and quite a few fisherman either fishing from boats or (only two)
from the bank). A lone GREEN HERON was also fishing from the mudflat
under the Boeing bridge at the southeast side of TB3.

Note: At 7am, I noticed flight activity by the Rock Pigeon flock that
usually hangs around the building across the parking lot from me. After
checking everything in the air, I spotted a Peregrine Falcon in the
below the ROPI flock. The falcon landed on one of the metal pieces on
the roof of the building toward the middle, and scanned the area for
several minutes. (The pigeons bailed to the west across the river.) The
falcon then flew up, circled, and landed on a spotlight atop the roof at
the southwest corner of the building. In a few moments, it was joined by
a much larger PEFA (most likely a female) that landed on an adjacent
spotlight. Both birds were there for a minute or so, but the larger bird
departed to the west. The smaller PEFA circled, then landed on top of a
roof-mounted crane, where it stayed for about 15 minutes before
departing.

See you at the Seattle Tilth Organic Harvest Fair in Wallingford
(Sunnyside Ave N) tomorrow!

Birds seen during this scan include the following:
Canada Goose (9 flew by)
Mallard (19)
Common Merganser (1 with a fish in its beak being harassed by a
Glaucous-winged Gull)
Great Blue Heron
Green Heron
Osprey (2)
Mew Gull (5)
Ring-billed Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull (23)
Rock Pigeon (12; of which 7 were on at the edge of the river on the west
bank, bathing)
Belted Kingfisher (2)
American Crow (7)
Bewick's Wren
European Starling (80)
Song Sparrow

May all your birds be identified,

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