Tweeters:

Over the last week the following have been noted up here in Snohomish Co:

(1) FRANKLIN'S GULL--a 1st-winter off Priest Point in east Tulalip Bay this last Saturday (8/23), coming out of Steamboat Slough over open water and close to a on-the-last-legs (fins?) 6-ft White Sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) at the surface, a nice Osprey at nest on piling here also;

(2) OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER--calling bird atop tall alder last night (8/28), seems like a pretty good migrant flight thus far this month judging from recent reports; and

(3) MacGILLIVRAY'S WARBLER--one at edge of yard in salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis) and Cal. hazel (Corylus cornuta) thicket on 8/24, like previous seems like better-than-average migrant flight this season and is our first fall migrant in 13 years here (whereas the species is uncommon in spring migration, May-early June).

And then we've had scattered singles of BLACK-THROATED GRAY and TOWNSEND'S WARBLERS in the yard over the last few week.

Scott Atkinson
Lake Stevens
mail to: scottratkinson at hotmail.com
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