Following up on Jeff Gibson's suggest I ventured out to the north end of
Marine View Dr. this morning and after a half hour of looking at least 10
Osprey2, a couple Purple Martin, half dozen Pintail, and a Wigeon, four
Whimbrels flew by around 9 AM. They were close enough to ID without
Binoculars but they did not land, at least while I was there. From there I
moved down to the boat ramps at the south side of the harbor. The best
birds here were a Spotted Sandpiper and a "flock" of 6 adult and 6 juvenile
Bald Eagle across the boat channel.



I decided to try the fishing pier at Mukilteo. Unfortunately there were
only Glaucous-winged Gulls and Rock Pigeons nearby but with my scope I found
1 distant Pigeon Guillemot. Not to be discouraged I walked down to the main
park and found one very close Pigeon Guillemot and on very distant alcid
through my scope. I walked further down the beach and what appeared to be
a different alcid flew in but still a little far for binoculars. After some
hide and seek diving I finally got it in the scope to confirm as a breeding
plumage Marbled Murrelet.



Not a bad morning as gray skies did not produce any rain. Also thanks to
Ann Marie Wood for originally finding the Whimbrels.

Bob Schmidt, Bothell, WA

bobs at world hyphen wide dot com