Hi Tweeters,

After dipping on the Edmonds Cassin's Auklet and Surfbirds at Alki Beach today, I headed to the Cedar River mouth at the south end of Lake Washington, which had a nice variety of birds.

The biggest surprise to me was an American Dipper foraging out on the mud bars where the gulls were congregating, then flying right below the platform I was standing on. I see from Tweeters reports that a few have been seen in Lake Washington before, but this seems to be a bit further downstream than they usually roam.

Among the many waterbirds was an Eared Grebe.
I didn't carefully study every single gull of the many present, but I did find 1 each adult Herring, Thayer's, and Western Gull.
No Glaucous Gulls that I could find, and I also didn't see/hear any warblers from the trail along the river.

Good birding,
Evan Houston
Seattle, WA