Tweeters,

This is my first post. My husband and I moved here from the east coast and
are getting back to birding as somewhat experienced amateurs...still
learning the birds and what?s common and what?s not.

We visited Cape Flattery for the first time Monday, 5/29 (Wow! What a
fabulous place!) and saw a bird coming from the lighthouse on the island.
It was unlike all the others there. I brought up my binoculars and saw it
was an adult peregrine falcon who perched facing the ocean and sun in full
view. I believe it was a female from it?s size, but not having brought our
scope (dumb!) I could not tell if it was tagged or not. It was finally
chased away by a crow. The peregrine looked healthy and fit.

Also seen there: Wilson?s warbler, winter wren, western wood-peewee (heard
only), lots of robins, towhees, pelagic cormorant, pigeon guillemot, black
oystercatcher, Thayer?s and western gulls, American/Northwestern crow,
unidentified flycatcher, and many, many unidentified sea birds...really
needed that scope. No peeps. Also, a sunbathing male sea lion, another in
the waters hunting, and lots of starfish, not to mention those creepy slugs.

Yard Birds in Port Townsend: Am. Goldfinch, house and purple finch,
?Oregon? junco, spotted towhee, song and white-crowned sparrows,
golden-crowned sparrow (left over a week ago), Chestnut-sided, and
black-capped chickadees, American (?) crow, turkey vulture (overhead one
day), bald eagle, violet-green swallows, un-id?d swallows, Rufous
hummingbirds, red-breasted nuthatch, black headed grosbeaks (our first!),
Pileated, hairy, and downy woodpeckers.

Diana Cummins
Port Townsend
montex at cablespeed.com