Yesterday, June 1st, we visited Spencer Island in Everett. We arrived at 11:30. It was low tide with a lot of mud exposed. Cliff swallows were gathering mud from the bank on the north side of the bridge for nest building. It is the first time we have seen this procedure. The whole time they are on the mud their wings and tail are held high and fluttering. It looked to us they did this to keep them out of the mud. Quite a show from the bridge deck about 30' away.

We only wished we could have had a vantage point low enough to see them placing it on the beams under the bridge.

Just north of the boundary where you inter the State property we saw a Eastern Kingbird. He was in a snag near the trail on the east side. We saw him in some snags further out as well. Twice we saw it interacting with a male Red-winged Blackbird.

Near that same point is a sort rocked area going to the east. There were two killdeer. One laid on the ground and did not just do a broken wing act, It laid down and fanned its tail and raised both wings. Lots of color you don't normally see.

An adult bald eagle sat in a snag across the slew and a pair of Black-capped Chickadees were bringing food to young in a nest hole in a snag on the slew side in that same area.

Robert & Bernie Meyer
Renton
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