Big Ditch was still gated shut on Friday.

Phil Dickinson

On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 5:56 PM Gary Bletsch <garybletsch at yahoo.com> wrote:


> Dear Tweeters,

>

> Today, the tenth of May, I was birding at the Fir Island Game Range with

> Lynda and Jared Elkin. We had just stepped up onto the dike in front of the

> boat-launch parking area, when Lynda and Jared casually remarked that they

> saw five White-faced Ibises! The three of us watched the birds as they flew

> in the direction of Big Ditch and Stanwood. This was shortly before eight

> in the morning.

>

> I was very happy to see the ibises, because I had been out at Neah Bay

> last fall, when the species last appeared in Skagit County.

>

> The place was rather crowded today, with quite a few birders and lots of

> dog-walkers, strollers, and sun-seekers. I let quite a few birders know to

> be on the lookout for ibises, but no one else saw them, as far as we could

> tell.

>

> We also saw eleven Whimbrel. They were working some short-grass fields

> west of the Game Range. They would fly over and call, frequently breaking

> off into small sub-flocks.

>

> Yours truly,

>

> Gary Bletsch

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