When birding recently, since the first of the year, at Snohomish County's Boe Road, I watched thousands of Dunlin flying over Port Susan Bay. We have not seen large flocks of Dunlin on the Edmonds waterfront and there have only been a few Sanderlings there this winter. Black-bellied Plover sightings in Edmonds are always rare. It would be interesting to know what the numbers are like for these three species in Jefferson County.

Carol Riddell
Edmonds, Wa