Tweets,

Just a few notes from this past weekend:

Saturday George Gerdts, Brien Meilleur, Gloria Conti, and I enjoyed fine close views of the Northern Waterthrush along the slough at the Skagit WRA 225 paces past the first bridge off the dike trail from the south parking lot (the usual spot). It calls sporadically, but the call is hard to miss. There is a way to get down to the slough from the dike, where you can sit quietly until the bird comes by.

Also Saturday, two Sharp-tailed Sandpipers were with the large Long-billed Dowitcher flocks at the Pt. Susan Bay Nature Conservancy Reserve, readily viewed from the dike at high tide. You will need to call the Nature Conservancy for permission to bird there and I don't recall the number.

We joined the modest crowd Saturday morning at the brush piles at Marymoor Park enjoying the Clay-colored Sparrow and puzzled over a large, dark, long-winged, longish-tailed, flat-gliding raptor that flew straight away south, offering limited views. However, we later that day saw a dark-phase Rough-legged Hawk on Fir Island that was a perfect match. So a Rough-legged Hawk at Marymoor Park. Would that be a first for the park, Michael?

Sunday, the Say's Phoebe was still at the Boeing Ponds in Kent. Presumably this is the same bird that has been there for nearly the entire year past.

Over the Kent Ponds this morning were two rather late Vaux's Swifts (assuming they weren't Chimney Swifts) with about 100 Violet-green Swallows, high overhead, heading south.

Gene Hunn
18476 47th Pl. NE
Lake Forest Park, WA
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