[Tweeters] Skagit and Samish Flats - birding report

[Glen Moffitt]

Regards the Great Blue Herons, several of us have noticed that that at the Everett Marina rookery the population of GBH’s this year is markedly smaller, maybe by 1/3 or half.


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May all your tweets be birds!

   I've been out on the Samish and Skagit Flats and also to Fir Island
several times since my last report.  This one is different - because
it is more about what I'm not seeing than what I am:

   Bald Eagles - pretty much everywhere there is a nest near ... and
                 no where else.  Usually within a 1/2 mile or so of
                 the nest.
   Harriers - still there but no where near as many.
   Short Eared Owls - I see just one or two every other time I go to
                      the Samish Flats (and especially the East 90).
   Great Blue Herons - still around, but again not as many.  Maybe
                       because half of them are on the nests on
                       March Point?  *G*  Did you catch that great
                       video of one defending its egg from an eagle
                       on youtube?

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