[Tweeters] Samish Flats - 28 Mar 2022

[Philip Dickinson]

Several thousand Snow Geese this afternoon between Boe and Thomle Rds. Bear Stanwood. Did not see any swans in the Stillaguamish Valley today.

Phil Dickinson

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> On Mar 28, 2022, at 1:31 PM, jimbetz at jimbetz.com wrote:

> 

> Hi,

> 

>  I was gone for 10 days - when I left the swans and snow geese were already

> dwindling.  I did a quick driving survey from about 10 to 11 this morning.

> It was a day of spotty, light rain.  By the time I was back home at noon

> there are hot spots but you'd still have to call it "overcast with scattered

> showers".  Here are the results:

> 

>  Bald Eagles - numbers down but still present.  Adults in/near nests, immatures

>                elsewhere.

>  Hawks - several redtails, a Rough-Legged, and two Harriers.  No Kestrels.

>          No peregrines.

>  Ducks - "everywhere" but not the numbers we were seeing just over a week ago.

>          One Bufflehead and the only other verified species were all Mallards.

>  Great Blue Herons - zero (unlikely I missed them).  Tide was high so they

>          were likely just somewhere else.  Since the rookery is 'just across

>          the bay' seeing zero GBHs is notable but not rare.

>  Flicker - one.

>  Ravens and Crows - a few.

>  Red-winged Blackbirds - where ever there were cattails.  Other blackbirds -

>                          normal (several hundred in groups of 50 and up).

>  Snow Geese - one large concentration near D'Arcy and Bayview-Edison Rd.

>               At least 5k and possible over 10k.

>  Trumpeter/Tundra Swans - one area near D'Arcy and Farm to Market.  About 500.

>  Seagulls - just about every where.

> 

>  There are no swans on the Butler Flats - one group of Snow Geese.  (Verified

> with spotting scope from our house.)

> 

>  I was expecting to be blanked on the snows and swans - pleasantly surprised to

> see any at all.  I did not have time to wait and see ... those groupings are,

> perhaps, "transients" moving North and stopping over to refuel ... ?

> 

>                                  - that's all folks ... Jim in Burlington

> 

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