Tweets, over our Memorial Day camping trip to Fort Flagler (gorgeous!), the
birding was generally excellent in the park - and the guillemots have taken
to nesting actively in the cliff face immediately beneath the upper
campground, so you can watch 'em flying in and swooping right under your
feet. Very cool. We also had lots of lovely thrush song, some very
deliberate (and LOUD) pileated WP drumming, numerous western tanagers, and
white-crowned sparrows so thick on the ground we practically had to kick
them out of the way. It's evidently a terrific year for WCSP. Rufous hummers
were very aggressive, but then, when are they not?



But mostly, we had at least a pair, and probably more, of mourning doves in
the cut-over field (now in about the tenth year or so of natural infill;
it's really quite interesting to see) a bit south of the upper campground. I
had thought they were pretty infrequent over west of the Cascades, but with
sightings in Magnuson, and now these, apparently breeding, at Fort Flagler,
are they now well-established over here?



Cheers, Josh Hayes in North Seattle