I stopped for a moment to check out the wigeon flock at Ellisport on Vashon
Island and had to get out to get my binocs from the back of the truck. That
got me out where I could here and I heard a shorebird call. The calls kept
coming and I realized it was a Black Turnstone call. I looked over to find
at least three flying around and landing on the sides of the pilings. They
were crawling around on the masses of mussels and barnecles like they were
on some rocky shore. They looked like woodpeckers crawling around on a tree
trunk. I've never seen them do that on a piling before.



Ed Swan

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