Yesterday (05.27.20) there were at least 10 alternate plumaged RED KNOTS at Hayton Reserve on Fir Island in Skagit County. Sometimes they were with 15 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS & sometimes by themselves. Also a COMMON TERN with CASPIAN TERNS and a single BONAPARTE'S GULL. Two WHIMBRELS flew over but did not land. And a very late male EURASIAN WIGEON.

Other shorebirds at Hayton were LEAST & WESTERN SANDPIPERS, one DUNLIN & a GREATER YELLOWLEGS. There were 2 SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS at the Game Range (Wylie Slough).

Video of Red Knots & Common Tern: [ https://www.flickr.com/photos/138163614 at N02/with/49944589473/ | https://www.flickr.com/photos/138163614 at N02/with/49944589473/ ]

On the way home to Tukwila I stopped at the end of Boe Rd in Snohomish County to see and hear the PURPLE MARTINS. My final stop was at a small, grassy "pull-off" along Norman Rd, next to the river, barely west of where Norman Rd ends at Pioneer Hwy near Silvana. This is where the road washed out a couple of years ago. I was looking for the BULLOCK'S ORIOLE I had seen at that location recently. I heard the oriole, as well as one or 2 SPOTTED SANDPIPERS. While there, I noticed a variety of swallows flying low over the river. Within a few minutes BARN, TREE, VIOLET-GREEN, CLIFF, NORTHERN ROUGHED-WING AND BANK SWALLOWS all came into view. It was a Washington swallow sweep.



Marv Breece
Tukwila, WA
marvbreece at q.com










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