Today I went to Discovery Park, hoping to find the Whimbrel...it found me!
I searched up and down the shoreline and around the lighthouse. I waded out into the muddy beach. Lots of gulls and terns. Near the large bluff I sat down on a log to dry my feet, and notebook that fell into a tidepool. After a bit I noticed the Whimbrel close at hand, poking around the logs and driftwood. It did not seem to be very worried. Very intricate looking bird with a nicely downward curved beak.

I also noticed many Black-throated Gray Warblers hanging around with Orange-crowned Warblers and Warbling Vireos, in the shrubs and alders of the upper slope.

-Mark Vernon
Renton, WA

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