I was watching out my window at the birds at my feeder this morning. A large
bird with a long thick bill and wide wings cruised over my trees heading
north. I had about a 3 second look and was too slow getting outside to see
it again. I live about half a mile from the shoreline on a ridge above the
Sound. My feeling was that it might have been a Willet. Sorry I saw no
other features. Anyone have any thoughts about this sighting?



I have seen Townsend's warblers in the alder trees for the past couple of
days. Two golden-crowned kinglets were foraging in the same area.



For the person with the band-tailed pigeons, I used to have 16 pigeons come
into my feeder, but since a female Cooper's hawk took up residence in the
woods around my house, only two have been coming in and just the past few
days. (Haven't seen the Cooper's for about a week, but now there is a
red-tailed hawk around. I happened to see it eating some bird on a branch
in the distance this morning and when I later went to the tree, I could see
a few white feathers, but not enough for me to make an identification.)



Janet Carroll

Mukilteo WA

junco at seanet.com