Correction: My wife has correctly ID'ed the pair of birds at Deer Lagoon as
lapland longspur, not snow buntings

On Sat, Oct 5, 2024 at 3:01 PM David A. Armstrong <davearm at uw.edu> wrote:


> 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

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