Subject: [Tweeters] Skagit birds
Date: May 14 23:03:55 2017
From: Gary Bletsch - garybletsch at yahoo.com


Dear Tweeters,
Every once in a while, eBird and AviSys stop talking to one another, which is happening again tonight, so I can't upload my checklists to eBird for this weekend. There were some interesting birds in Skagit County the last two days (13-14 May 2017).
--16 or more American White Pelicans at March Point on Saturday;
--a lone drake Blue-winged Teal at the Game Range Saturday, hard to find amidst all the Gadwalls;
--a lone Snow Goose on Samish Flats Saturday;
--two Rough-legged Hawks on Samish Flats Saturday (now I'm in Bud Anderson's May RLHA club!), the same banded ones that have been out there lately;
--a dozen or more Whimbrel at the Game Range Saturday;
--20 Black Swifts at Concrete Airport this evening;
--a Western Kingbird on Cockreham Island today;
--a spring-plumaged?Harris's Sparrow at my feeder today, first ever, (yard bird #157);
--lots of baby birds, such as Mallards and Virginia Rails at Ship Harbor, Hooded Mergansers at Barnaby Slough, Canada Geese at Burlington's K-Mart Pond, Killdeer at Jensen Access, and so forth.
I scratched out 106 species in Skagit County on Saturday, and of course, there were four species today in my yard that didn't show up on Saturday, not to mention a few others upriver. That is always the way with big days. The big miss for the weekend was Western Tanager--not a one in two days of birding.
Well, now I just have to sit back and wait for Bud to send me my secret decoder ring,?plus all the other cool stuff that you get when you join?the May Rough-leg Club!
Yours truly,
Gary Bletsch