Tweets - I spent Saturday and Sunday down in Lewis, Cowlitz, and Clark
counties, and had some good birds.

Saturday at sunrise, I had two WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS at a feeder along
Goodrich Rd., in north Lewis County. They were at the house just before the
90 first degree bend in the road.

Then I went up the short side road to the north off Goodrich (Wagner Rd.),
and had a great mixed flock of gulls - Glaucous-winged, Ring-billed, Mew, at
least 2 THAYER'S GULL, and 2 (TWO) juvenile GLAUCOUS GULLS.

Down at Willow Grove at the east end of Longview, Cowlitz Co., I had three
WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS together along the north side road. I also found an
ANNA'S HUMMINGBIRD at the west end.

At Woodland Bottoms, there was a pair of TRUMPETER SWANS in with a couple of
hundred Tundra Swans. In the Columbia, I had two female WHITE-WINGED
SCOTERS. Sunday, also off Woodland Bottoms, I had a RED-THROATED LOON. Oh,
and while I was looking at the scoters, I noticed a MERLIN in a tree.

Sunday, in Clark County, I hit the Waterfront Renaissance Trail area east of
I-5, and had a RED-THROATED LOON. At Vancouver Lake, where access was
difficult because of a marathon, I found 2-3 RED-BREASTED MERGANSERS with
Common Mergansers in the lake near the outlet to the flushing channel. On
my way out, on Old Lower River Rd., I found a WHITE-THROATED SPARROW in my
3rd county of the weekend.

At Ridgefield, on the auto route, I was surprised to see 3 CINNAMON TEAL at
the first pond on the left (stop #2) and even more surprised when I noticed
that the bird next to them was a BLUE-WINGED TEAL. I tried, and failed, to
find any Trumpeter Swans in with the hundreds of Tundras.

It's funny that I hit most of the same areas as Russ Koppendrayer, both of
us on Saturday, and we had such different highlights. I failed to find most
of his good birds.

== Michael Hobbs
== BirdMarymoor at frontier.com
== www.marymoor.org
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