Tweeters,



My son and I spent a couple of hours birding the east side of Crockett
Lake on Saturday morning. There were several thousand shorebirds spread
out over the entire lake. Mostly western sandpipers, a few leasts,
dowitchers, one each Baird's and Pectoral sandpipers, one lesser
yellowlegs and one juvenile red knot. Lincoln's sparrows in the brush
outnumbered even the song sparrows. An inept juvenile peregrine falcon
kept things stirred up. A merlin went way out of its way to continually
stoop on three harriers which seemed to take no notice.



Dave Parent, Freeland