Tweets,

I spent the morning birding the Snoqualmie Valley from Duvall to Fall City. Highlights include:

RUSTY BLACKBIRD, 1 male, in a flock of several hundred red-wings and Brewer's with the swan flock (on NE 60th St., about 1/2 mile west of SR 203 just north of Carnation.

TRUMPETER SWANS, 310 on NE 60th and another 24 nw of Duvall along West Snoqualmie River Rd. Mostly Trumpeters but ca. 10 or more Tundras in the big flock, one with a blue neck band, previously reported. No sign of the Bewick's reported there by Rob Conway last week.

SNOW GOOSE, 1 immature with ca. 1000 Canadas [plus ca. 10 Greater White-fronts and a few Cacklers] at the Nestle Experimental Station (aka Carnation Farms)].

For the goose-freaks, there appeared to be two DUSKY CANADA GEESE with a flock of 250 Canada's ne of the junction of Novelty Hill Rd. and West Snoqualmie Valley Rd., sw of Duvall.

WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS, 4, three at the double 90 degree bend in W. Snoqualmie Valley Rd. at the south edge of the SAS Carnation Marsh property and another along 100th St. nw of Sykes Lake. A pair of PEREGRINES and an AMERICAN KESTREL were nw of Sykes Lake also.

The RUSTY BLACKBIRD is my first for King County. It was mostly black but with crown, nape and upper back brown, supercilium buffy, flanks and sides of chest irregularly barred pale, iris nearly white.

Gene Hunn
18476 47th Pl. NE
Lake Forest Park, WA 98155
enhunn323 at comcast.net