Tweets ? adding to the annals of unseasonably late TURKEY VULTURES, there were 4 over I-5 near Smokey Point north of Marysville today a little before noon.

My wife and I made a brief stop at the Jenson Access on Fir Island, where other birders had been searching for over an hour for signs of the Little Gull, without finding it. There were small flocks of Bonaparte?s moving around, so it might just take getting lucky. Quite a few SNOW GEESE were back, and there were more on the Samish Flats.

Working from a tip by Fanter Lane and his dad, we zoomed up to the West 90, where there was a large flock of DUNLIN and BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER in the field just NE of the parking area. Amongst them was at least one PACIFIC GOLDEN-PLOVER. We also glimpsed what looked like about 5 SWANS, but they went ?poof? and disappeared.

== Michael Hobbs
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