[Tweeters] Skagit and Samish Flats - birding report

[Philip Dickinson]

Yes, I have notice that, too, and have commented on it on at least one ebird checklist. Even more disconcerting us the fact that no herons are nesting at an established heronry at Riverview Wildlife Refuge in Snohomish.

Phil Dickinson 

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> On May 22, 2023, at 2:42 PM, Glen Moffitt <gdmoffitt at gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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!

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>    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:

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>    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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