Subject: [Tweeters] Skagit/Snohomish Co - 30 April 2008
Date: Apr 30 21:52:05 2008
From: Ryan Merrill - rmerrill27 at gmail.com


I had a nice day birding up in Snohomish and Skagit today. Below are
some of the highlights from the 110 species found:

Greater White-fronted Goose - 67 including 51 with the Snow Goose flock
Snow Goose - 3250 at Boe Road including one immature Blue Goose and the GWFGs
Common (Eurasian) Teal - 1 Indian Slough (first slough north of SR20
along Bayview-Edison Road)
Cinnamon Teal - 2 Game Range (Skagit WMA), 1 Green Road ponds
Turkey Vulture - 10 on the ground together on the Samish Flats
Sora - 4 Green Road
Semipalmated Plover - 19 Alice Bay, 40 Whitmarsh
Wilson's Snipe - 3 Game Range
Short-billed Dowitcher - 1 Game Range, 1 near La Conner
Long-billed Dowitcher - 9 Indian Slough
Whimbrel - 1 Alice Bay
Lesser Yellowlegs - 4 Game Range
SOLITARY SANDPIPER - 1 Game Range in field across first bridge on the
right out the dike from the boat launch parking lot
Hammond's Flycatcher - 2 Breazeale Interpretive Center in Bayview
Bank Swallow - 1 near La Conner
House Wren - 1 Bayview Cemetery
Hermit Thrush - 4 Breazeale
Warbling Vireo - 2 Game Range
Orange-crowned Warbler - many places including 30 at the Game Range
NASHVILLE WARBLER - 2 Breazeale
Yellow Warbler - 5 Game Range
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 300 Game Range (~2/3s Audubon's)
Black-throated Gray Warbler - 1 Breazeale
Wilson's Warbler - several places including 10 at the Game Range
Black-headed Grosbeak - 1 Game Range
Evening Grosbeak - 5 Game Range

Good Birding,
Ryan Merrill
Kirkland, WA