Hi Tweets,

I was thinking that Spring migration over here on this side of the water was
about over. Things had really slowed down this past week at most of the
places I often check for migrants. Wow, was I wrong. I arrived at the Point
no Point parking lot at about 8:00. As I was parking the car, the first bird
I see pop-up in the blackberry patch is a spizzella sparrow. A little closer
inspection after climbing out of the vehicle, I realize I am looking at a
BREWER'S SPARROW. Wow, the Point no Point magic continues!

The bird flies behind the blackberry patch and east toward the lighthouse as
I put in a call to Vic Nelson. After a short search we are able to re-locate
it and we spend the next hour following it around as I attempted to get some
digiscoped video of it. I did get some video footage but I am not sure of
its quality. I hope some of the video quality is decent, as I am not quite
sure that I can rule-out that it was the Timberline form (if that can even
be determined).

Amazingly at one point in our sparrow watch, as we stood on the beach just
east of the lighthouse, two swallows fly-in low, very close to us. One is a
Violet green-Swallow and the other swallow that is the same size turns-out
to be a BANK SWALLOW as it turns and flies close, over are heads.

The conditions at Point no Point were perfect for birders, but probably not
so good for the migrating birds. There was a brisk north wind and some fog.
This seemed to put the birds "down". Other notable birds included 5 Western
Kingbirds, a "late" American Pipit, a few Bullock's Orioles, one Western
Scrub-Jay, a flyover Turkey Vulture, and about 100 total Cedar Waxwings.

Cheers and good birding,

Brad Waggoner
Bainbridge Island, WA
mailto:wagtail at sounddsl.com