I started birding Point No Point, Kitsap County, at 0630 this morning and
was joined by Brad Wagner from 0800-1300. After a week of slow birding the
migrant dam burst today. From the lighthouse area or from the old trailer park we
watched as a continuous flow of migrants passed overhead or through the
scattered trees along the shoreline. The main highlights were 5 Lazuli Buntings,
1 Scrub Jay, 27 Stellers Jays in one flock, 1 Eurasian Collared Dove, 6
Evening Grosbeaks, 40 Black-headed Grosbeaks,3 Bullocks Orioles, 3 Townsends
Solitaires, I Yellow-headed Blackbird, 1 Western Wood Pewee, 1 Chipping
Sparrow,150 Cedar Waxwings, 5 Turkey Vulture, 3 Sharpshin, 1 Coopers, 4 Redtail Hawks,
5 Sp. warblers (mostly yellow-rump), dozens of Pine Siskins and Am.
Goldfinches.

Saving the true highlights for last we also saw 48 Western Kingbirds and
over 1450 Western Tanagers. These numbers are about triple the record numbers
Brad and I had in previous years. The Kingbirds flew mostly south to north over
the water while the tanagers avoided the water crossing by changing
direction to the west-northwest direction paralleling the shoreline . Most of the
migration was between 0800-1100, but birds were still moving up to 1300 and
beyond.

Vic Nelson



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