Tweets,

Yesterday 25 of us enjoyed a chilly, foggy walk at Nisqually. The fog
never really lifted until after noon so viewing conditions were a bit
difficult. We had a 3.0 low tide at 1:08 so we had lots of mud along
the estuary boardwalk.

Waterfowl are starting to arrive on the refuge wit our first of the
season COMMON GOLDENEYE and NORTHERN SHOVELERS being seen, Also we saw
more AMERICAN WIGEON than last week.

There also are more passerines about than I expected as we had
ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS, BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLERS, a male COMMON
YELLOWTHROAT, and YELLOW WARBLERS. This seems late for them to still
be hanging around. We also had a couple of nice mixed flocks of both
CHICKADEES and both KINGLETS, as well as a nice flock of BUSHTITS.

Raptors included BALD EAGLES, RED-TAILED HAWK, NORTHERN HARRIER and
AMERICAN KESTREL. Most were roosting with only the HARRIER flying.

For the day I had 46 species and now have 119 for the year. Mammals
seen were EASTERN GRAY SQUIRREL and COYOTE.

Until next week....

Phil Kelley
scrubjay323 at gmail.com
Lacey, WA