Started nicely with a heard NORTHERN PYGMY OWL (only my 2nd at Neah Bay;
slow rate) and then I spent some happy hours searching for migrants with
limited success and recording sounds from sparrows and crossbills. (I've
still only managed to record type 3 RED CROSSBILLS). There was very little
moving except CHESTNUT-BACKED CHICKADEES that were almost comical in their
reluctance to cross open spaces, AMERICAN ROBINS, my first (and
long-awaited) Neah Bay NORTHERN GOSHAWK and a beautiful BLACK MERLIN.
Oddity of the day was a WILSON'S (I assume) SNIPE flushed from the top of
the sandy beach where there is scattered what I would call Ammophila (beach
grass).

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Nigel Ball
Bainbridge Island
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