That's great! I've been noticing numerous VT in the yard and on the road for the past week or so here in Greenbank, I should look back to when I've started reporting them here in years past, probably around now. On another topic that I've wanted to mention, my wife and I noticed a very curious bird at the Keystone boat launch last Sunday as we got ready to go out, it seemed interested in our boat, and even dove a little to catch crumbs of something. It was a juvenile sea duck, likely a White-winged Scoter. When we left the ramp, it was sleeping in the shallows, with its head tucked back. We returned the next day to pay our launch fee and noticed the poor thing dead on the rocks. My wife and daughter were very upset to see it, perhaps it was just too far from a good food source.

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> I was on a walk last week here in Bellingham and there were about six

> Varied Thrushes on the trail. I was lucky enough to capture an image - it

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