Hi Tweets,

The Sound was flat and gray this morning (1-30-10) when I approached
the Edmonds public pier at 8:30 a.m. A juvenile Bald Eagle flew
along Olympic Beach and turned in toward town at the ferry dock. As
I continued out the pier I noticed the male Belted Kingfisher perched
atop the single piling from which we have lost two of the new Purple
Martin gourds. The Dunlin have disappeared from the marina
breakwater but an adult Bald Eagle was on the south part of it. No
Brant were seen this morning. At the marsh there was no sign of
Great Blue Herons or Killdeer, although Ted Peterson reported seeing
the first two Killdeer of 2010 yesterday. Not a sparrow was seen at
the marsh, the hatchery or along Point Edwards. Another adult Bald
Eagle was perched on top of the highest Douglas Fir above the
condominiums. A flock of 150+ Pine Siskins flew over the hatchery
and then split up with a number of them alighting in the scrub alder
below the Point Edwards public path. There was a large feeding flock
of Ruby-crowned Kinglets and Black-capped Chickadees, with a few
Chestnut-backeds, at the hatchery along Willow Creek.

Public Pier

Canada Goose (19)
Red-breasted Merganser (females only)
Common Goldeneye (2)
Surf Scoter
Bald Eagle (1 ad.; 1 juv.)
Mew Gull
Double-crested Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
Pigeon Guillemot
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Belted Kingfisher (1 male)
Crow
Rock Pigeon

Marsh

Northern Shoveler
Mallard
Gadwall
Mew Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Robin
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Crow

Hatchery/Point Edwards

Gadwall
Bufflehead
Canada Goose (including one Dusky)
Bald Eagle (1 ad.)
Northern Flicker (2)
Anna's Hummingbird (1)
Red-winged Blackbird
Robin
Oregon Junco
Spotted Towhee
Pine Siskin (150+)
House Finch
Black-capped Chickadee
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Crow

I came home to find Townsend's Warblers in the yard again for the
third time in the last month. This is a first for my yard and only
the second warbler species on my yard list so it has started out to
be a good day!

Carol Riddell
Edmonds