Hi Tweets,

It is a sunny morning in Edmonds. It started out cold (below
freezing) but warmed up and the Sound is fairly calm. Of note, the
Red-necked Grebes and Horned Grebes are showing alternate plumage,
even though the Pigeon Guillemots hanging around the pier were still
in basic plumage. There is still no evidence of Purple Martin
scouts. A Power That Is must have decided to open the tide gate this
week because there has been lower water levels and more mud in the
Edmonds Marsh. Now we just need some migrating shorebirds! And
still waiting to see a Rufous Hummingbird around the Marsh or Willow
Creek Hatchery. Here's what we saw this morning:

Public Pier

Brant (30+)
Surf Scoter
Common Goldeneye
Bufflehead
Double-crested Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
Red-necked Grebe
Horned Grebe
Pigeon Guillemot
Mew Gull
Bonaparte?s Gull (12+)
Glaucous-winged Gull
Crow
Rock Pigeon
House Sparrow

Edmonds Marsh & Point Edwards

Canada Goose
Mallard
Green-winged Teal
Gadwall
Northern Shoveler
Bufflehead
Red-tailed Hawk
Killdeer (1)
Great Blue Heron
Crow
Glaucous-winged Gull
Anna?s Hummingbird
Violet-green Swallow
Savannah Sparrow
Golden-Crowned Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Pine Siskin
Black-capped Chickadee
American Robin
Marsh Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Spotted Towhee
Red-winged Blackbird
Bushtit
House Finch
American Goldfinch
Starling

Good birding,

Carol Riddell
Edmonds



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