Adam, my goodness, 11 loons is not exceptional? We don't see any of the
loons very frequently and I've never seen RTLOs in those numbers around the
Point. I'd say exceptional!



Gary T. Smith

Alki Point



From: tweeters-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu
[mailto:tweeters-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Adam
Sedgley
Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 10:06 PM
To: Tweeters
Subject: [Tweeters] West Seattle shore and Cedar River (Renton)



Hi Tweets,



Had some time today to bird around Seattle today. Checked several sites
along the West Seattle waterfront. Nothing exceptional but had 8
RED-THROATED LOONS, 3 PACIFIC LOONS, 2 RHINOCEROS AUKLETS, and 1 COMMON
MURRE at Constellation Park. Also had 53 BRANT between several sites on
either side of Alki Point. I only went as far east as the dock at Duwamish
Head and thus the only rockbirds I saw were 5 fly-by BLACK TURNSTONES
(missed the flock of Surfbirds).



I decided that I hadn't heard anything about the gulls at Cedar River
(Renton) for a while, so I decided to check it out. Not huge numbers of
gulls but good diversity: CALIFORNIA (1), HERRING (3), MEW (4), RING-BILLED
(6), THAYER'S (2), WESTERN (3) with 74 GLAUCOUS-WINGED mutts.



I stopped by Stan Sayres Park on Lake Washington to see the flock of geese:
CANADA (5), GREATER WHITE-FRONTED (4), and taverni CACKLING (1).




Adam



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Adam Sedgley
S e a t t l e, WA
sedge.thrasher [at] gmail [dot] com