Hi Tweets,

I don't usually set my alarm on Saturdays so the local male flicker
kindly took it upon himself to drum on my chimney cap at 7:45. I
leaped out of bed, went to the deck and watched him for a few
minutes. The neighborhood male Anna's was already sucking down sugar
water at the small feeder I have in a vine maple tree and towhees
were scratching in the safflower seeds and bark. So I decided to
head down to the waterfront and see who else was about. It was a
blustery March morning on the Sound. Wind was from the south and it
was cold. No one was on the pier but me and Ted Peterson. We saw
two Common Loons. One was a fly-by and the other was floating on the
water in breeding plumage. We saw all three cormorants and both
Canada and Brant Geese. Pigeon Guillemot was the only alcid we could
see. The marsh was at flood level, probably from the heavy rains of
this week. So there were wigeons and teals floating about, along
with a Hooded Merganser drake on Willow Creek. The Red-breasted
Sapsucker was tapping away in the hatchery and a kingfisher was seen
along Willow Creek from Point Edwards. The heron nests are still
vacant and the only heron seen this morning was on the waterfront.

Public Pier

Canada Goose
Brant (8)
Mallard (2 fly-by)
Surf Scoter
Bufflehead
Common Loon (2)
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Brandt's Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
Great Blue Heron (1)
Mew Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Pigeon Guillemot
Rock Pigeon

Marsh

Canada Goose
American Wigeon
Mallard
Green-winged Teal)
Hooded Merganser (1 male)
Bald Eagle (1 ad.)
Red-tailed Hawk (1)
Glaucous-winged Gull
American Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
Bewick's Wren
Robin
Starling
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Spotted Towhee
Song Sparrow
Oregon Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
House Finch

Hatchery/Point Edwards

Canada Goose
Gadwall
Northern Shoveler
Bufflehead
Bald Eagle (1 ad.)
Anna's Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher (1)
Red-breasted Sapsucker (1)
Steller's Jay
Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
Robin
Starling
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Spotted Towhee
Song Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
House Finch
American Goldfinch

Good birding,

Carol Riddell
Edmonds