Hi Tweets,

Heather and I were returning from a conference in Spokane so decided to check out Reardon Ponds and Davenport in Lincoln County.

The Reardon Ponds are rapidly filling up with a nice waterfowl selection, including a nice Immature male Eurasian Wigeon, still working on its nice golden crown and all black butt. Also a nice flock of Canvasbacks that we just don't get to see very often on the west side. An immature Northern Shrike near the south blind was a nice sighting.

For The Blue Jay, we saw a post for a "requested undisclosed location" and decided that since jays are such vociferous fellows, that a nice walk around the neighborhood on a beautiful day should work and it did. Let me say that we loved looking at all the restored and vintage houses in the area. We saw first saw the Three Blue Jays eating together at a Mountain Ash tree side by side in the same view on the south side of town and later we saw them again while having lunch in the City Water Park (complete with picnic tables and real bathrooms - nice). So they do cover quite a bit of ground and re-locateable without having to bother any residents.

Also stopped by Sprague Lake and saw 5 grebes - Eared, Horned, Pied-billed, Clark's and Western.

Good Birding,

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Marcus Roening,
Tacoma. WA

Marcus.d.roening at gsk.com