Hi Tweets,

It doesn't pay to leave the country for two weeks during prime
migration time, but that's what I did. Oh well. On the upbeat note,
I got some life birds and added some non-life birds to my Eurolist
but it sounds as if I have missed some great irruptions in the Puget
Trough. Today was my first morning of Edmonds birding in two weeks.
I spent a delightful couple of hours with Ted Peterson and Dave
Bakeman. Things have slowed down a bit but there are still some nice
birds around. Of note, there were four PURPLE MARTINS perched at the
new gourds, three males and either a female or subadult. None of
them entered a gourd while I watched so I'm still not sure whether I
enlarged the starling-resistant entrances to their satisfaction. We
should know soon. Very few birds were on the water but three MARBLED
MURRELETS made it worth wandering out to the pier. A new spring bird
for the Marsh was a CEDAR WAXWING. The Willow Creek Hatchery was
almost ominously devoid of avian activity. While Yost Park was also
fairly quiet, the few birds we saw were good ones and included a
WARBLING VIREO.

Waterfront

Great Blue Heron
Surf Scoter
Rhinoceros Auklet
Marbled Murrelet
Glaucous-winged Gull
Rock Pigeon
White-crowned Sparrow

Edmonds Marsh

Great Blue Heron
Canada Goose
Mallard
Marsh Wren
Virginia Rail
Killdeer
Song Sparrow
American Goldfinch
Anna's Hummingbird
Cedar Waxwing
House Finch
Barn Swallow
Violet-green Swallow
Red-winged Blackbird
Robin
American Crow
Glaucous-winged Gull

Yost Park

Robin
Black-capped Chickadee
Wilson's Warbler
Black-headed Grosbeak
Warbling Vireo
Pileated Woodpecker

Good birding,

Carol Riddell
Edmonds