... when the low tides are so high?


  The tides right now only have actual lows in the middle of the
night.  The "low" tides in the

middle of the day are running +5 and higher.  I go to Channel Drive
often.  I was there just

yesterday and the 'low' tide was so high it felt more like a "low high"
than a low.  And large

areas that are usually uncovered/mostly uncovered where pretty deep. 
There were a few

ducks but even those numbers were small.  BTW - if you are thinking of
going to Channel

Drive check the tides for "La Conner" and expect good things if the tide
will be zero or a

minus tide.

  I followed up the quick visit to Channel Drive by going to Hayton -
there were a few

Greater Yellowlegs and a couple of GBH but no 'collection' of other
shorebirds such as

Whimbrels, Dowitchers, any form of peeps, etc. ... in fact I didn't see
or hear any other

than the Yellowlegs.  There were considerable numbers of ducks (mostly
pintails) and a

lot of gulls - but the Snow Geese so common recently were missing (at
Hayton).  That

Bald Eagle was sitting in the tree at Hayton for a long time (an hour or
more).


  I then checked eBird Explore for Skagit County and didn't find any
checklists with shorebirds.

Even locations such as Ship Harbor were "shorebirdless".


  So is anybody seeing any credible numbers of shorebirds?  In Skagit
County?  Do you know of

some areas that have relatively large expanses of "high low tide wading
depths"?  Again - in

Skagit if possible.

                                                - Jim