Subject: [Tweeters] Western Kingbird and other migrants in Port Townsend
Date: Fri Apr 30 10:35:19 PDT 2021
From: Steve Hampton - stevechampton at gmail.com

All,

This beautiful morning there was a Western Kingbird at the ag fields about
50 yards north of the greenhouses north of the taco truck at F and San
Juan. It was usually on the west side of fields near the tan house (long
view from the bike path on the east side). Distant pics at
https://ebird.org/checklist/S86730248.

The last couple days have also produced my first of season Warbling Vireo,
Wilson's Warblers (several), and MacGillivray's Warbler. Others I associate
with winter have also appeared: a confiding White-throated Sparrow in my
backyard (apparently gone today) and a pair of Evening Grosbeaks that
headed toward uptown this morning. Type 3 Red Crossbills are around town
(mostly Fort Warden) in low numbers. Some pics from the other day are here
(all taken out the windows of my house):
https://ebird.org/checklist/S86573113

Offshore, large numbers of Rhinoceros Auklets (hundreds) and Bonaparte's
Gulls (dozens) are among the distant feeding frenzies mid-channel.

good birding,

--
Steve Hampton
Port Townsend, WA
*Qatay, S'Klallam territory*
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