Tweeters:

Headed up to Rosario last eve to see if the swirling winds had blown anything interesting in. Such was not the case, but I did find a TUFTED PUFFIN way out, near the s.w. corner of the county, though the telescope. There was a melee of about one hundred (mostly) HERRMANN'S GULLS and the bird flew in from the north, landing right along the edge of the gull frenzy. The other bird of interest was a FOS light-morph PARASITIC JAEGER, a tad on the early side for Skagit Co. Perhaps this was a wind-blown bird.

Then this afternoon I had an early imm. NORTHERN (YELLOW-SH.) FLICKER, one of six flickers drawn to the woodpecker suet at the feeder; and an apparent integrade RED-SH. x YELLOW-SHAFTED FLICKER. I managed a couple shots of the integrade, which looked right for YELLOW-SHAFTED in the face, but showed light reddish in the underwings in fly-way.

Scott Atkinson
Lake Stevens
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