Hi Tweets,

It is nippy in Edmonds this morning, as it most likely is around the
Sound. Still no Ancient Murrelets to be seen from the public pier
but birding wasn't bad. Dennis Duffy had a Marbled Murrelet before
Ted Peterson and I showed up. There were herring or some other small
fish on the surface near the pier. The flashes of silver were nice
to see and they attracted the Bonaparte's Gulls.

Common Loon (fly-bys)
Red-necked Grebe
Horned Grebe
Western Grebe
Clark's Grebe (1)
Brandt's Cormorant (1, fly-by)
Pelagic Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
Surf Scoter
Black Scoter (2 females, fly-bys)
Bufflehead (1 male)
Red-breasted Merganser (5-7 females)
Marbled Murrelet (1, fly-by)
Rhinoceros Auklet
Common Murre (fly-bys)
Pigeon Guillemot
Glaucous-winged Gull
Mew Gull
Bonaparte's Gull
Heermann's Gull
Crow
Rock Pigeon
Starling

The Marsh remains somewhat desolate. There were the resident Great
Blue Herons, a Song Sparrow, a couple of Black-capped Chickadees, and
a few Red-winged Blackbirds flying over.

Carol Riddell
Edmonds