Hi,



I, too, enjoyed a nice Saturday walk at Nisqually. Missed the Pine Grosbeaks, but saw 4 swallows (almost sure they were tree swallows), my first of the year. Also, the adult Northern Shrike was present around noon along the trail to McAlister Creek, about half way between the new dike and the creek.



On Sunday, at the central meadow by the new Chambers Bay Golf Course in University place there were 3 singing meadowlarks, and the old gravel pit dock along the sound held all three species of cormorants.



Gary Sogard

University Place