[Tweeters] Skagit birding 10.05.22

[Marv Breece]

Highlights from Fir Island and farther north on 10.05.22: 

Snow Goose - 150 on Maupin Rd on Fir Island 
Snow Goose - 1 of the 150 with a bill the size of a Ross's, but otherwise a Snow; likely a hybrid 
Cackling Goose - many, many skeins of minima heading south 
Merlin - female Taiga on Wylie Rd 
Peregrine - 2 at Hayton 
American Avocet - 2 continuing at Hayton 
Pacific Golden-Plover - close overhead at Hayton, IDd to which GP by sound 
Semipalmated Plover - Hayton 
Short-billed Dowitcher - 1 at Hayton; videos 
Long-billed Dowitcher - few at Hayton & 300 at Channel Drive 
Greater Yellowlegs - few at Hayton & CD (Channel Drive) 
Lesser Yellowlegs - 3 at CD 
Western Sandpiper - few at Hayton; none at CD 
Least Sandpiper - few at hayton; none at CD 
Dunlin - none anywhere I went 
Pectoral Sandpiper - 39 & more at Hayton; only 1 at CD; did not see sharp-tailed again at CD; videos from Hayton 
Great Horned owl - well heard before light at Wylie (now open) 
Barn Swallow - several locations; 20 along Maupin Rd 
American Pipit - 2 at Hayton (only 2) 
Northern Shrike - 1 juv at CD; first of season for me 
White-crowned Sparrow - both pugetensis & gambelii singing at CD 
Western Meadowlark - 1 seen at Hayton 

Marv Breece 
Tukwila, WA 
marvbreece at q.com 

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