A flat-calm day at Deer Lagoon, Whidbey Island. Diversity and numbers of
birds increasing....many 100s of wigeons, pintails, teals, and shovelers.
Missing still are buffleheads, hooded mergansers, scaups, plovers, dunlin.
Yellow legs came and went.
Highlight was a pair of snow buntings in driftwood on the sand spit at
mouth of Deer Lagoon as it empties into Useless Bay. A male and female in
fall-winter plumage. We've seen them there before but not this early.
david armstrong