Hey tweets, John and I got out to the Fill for round 2 yesterday
evening and found more shorebirds than I could count. Little flocks
were coming in from who knows where. Most were Leasts. There was one
Western, and I heard a Greater Yellowlegs. Also, there was a Dunlin in
partial breeding plumage. The mud is looking fantastic - we've already
done better this spring than all of last year, in terms of shorebird
numbers. I feel almost like the old Fill is coming back.

Out on the lake was a lone Western Grebe, standing out like a beacon
in the light of the sinking sun. On the southwest pond, in the
southern slough, and in the coyote marsh, the Virginia Rails were
kiddicking like crazy. Speaking of coyotes, it's great fun to be there
when a siren sounds off - the coyotes seem to think it's a sing-a-long
and chime in. As the sun went down and the swallows finally called it
a day, a lone bat came out to snap up the bugs that had hatched out in
great numbers. It was swooping all over the field on the east side of
Shoveler's Pond, coming in so low at times that I could see its cute
little ears. What a day.

This morning, I heard from the CUH folks about our whiteboard project.
Thanks to a couple of big donors, we're up to almost $700 dollars
already, more than 2/3 of the way toward our goal of $1,000. I am so
proud of us as a community. Let's push just a little more and get that
puppy up! - Connie, Seattle

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