Hi All,

Doug Watkins and I enjoyed birding various spots here on Bainbridge
Island yesterday. It was quite windy, but we managed to stay dry.
Our main highlight of the day was a ROCK WREN found along a beach at the
south end of the Island.

Two other notables for the day:

Parasitic Jaeger - Three adult birds and one sub-adult were working a
large mixed gull flock (750+ Cal. gulls) near Blakely Rock in the morning.

Vaux's Swift - We had three in with a few Violet-green Swallows and a
few Barn Swallows. As Charlie Wright had indicated from his Nisqually
swifts, these are getting late.

It was interesting to me after the amazing mid-week movement of Greater
White-fronted Geese (including multiple flocks seen here on Bainbridge
Island) that yesterday we didn't see any migrant flocks of waterfowl.
Large flocks of American Robins were on the move. We had good numbers of
Yellow-rumped Warblers and there was little mid-day raptor flight
including one Northern harrier and two Turkey Vultures (both uncommon
here on Bainbridge Island). So what made the lousy (from a landscapers
perspective) mid-week conditions so favorable for such a large movement
of geese, cranes and such? Migration is so interesting!

Cheers and good birding,

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