I had a bit of time to bird, although my main purpose of the trip was to
deal with a burlary at my place on the bay... (They got my favorite carved
wooden duck.)

The shorebird migration is showing signs of picking up.

April 17:

Ledbetter (the shore from the parking lot to the marshes going north).
160 Short-billed Dowitchers
250 Dunlin
20 Least Sandppers
35 Western Sandpipers
3 Black-bellied Plovers
4 Greater Yellowlegs
1 Merlin

>From my back yard further south on the bay:
4,000 Dunlin
375 Short-billed Dowichers
200 Western Sandpipers
1 Red Knot
28 Greater Yellowlegs
125 Least Sandpipers
1 Black Turnstone
11 Black-bellied Turnstones
1 Osprey
350 Black Brant
70 Common Loons
1 Saw-whet Owl

Orange-crowned Warblers and Black-throated Gray Warblers were singing in
many locations.

Jeff Gilligan.