Hi Tweets,

A beautiful sunny & almost windless day, perfect for looking for birds blown south after yesterday's winds from Dune Peninsula Tacoma/Ruston - our newest Metro Park named in honor of Frank Herbert of Dune fame. Plenty of parking, paved short trails.

Will Brooks found the Snow Bunting in the rocks and parking lot of the Yacht Club seen from the tip of Dune Peninsula. Appears to be a female.

And then while sorting thru the 100s of Bonaparte's Gulls, I picked up a Brown Booby on the water at 11:30 am that flew across the front of Vashon Island and south into Commencement Bay. Thea's Park looking out at the rocks at the mouth of the Puyallup River where the DC Cormorants & Brown Pelican roost would be a good spot to check with scope.

The closest views of Dalco Passage are from inside Point Defiance Park on the limited hours, 5 Mile drive (M-F 9 am - 2 pm) . . Or you can walk in or scope from Dune Peninsula.

You can also see Black Turnstones when the rocks are exposed at Dune.

Good Birding,

Marcus Roening & Heather Ballash
Tacoma WA

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