<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Constellation Park has been a reliable site for Brant since my youth, which was back when they were called Black Brant.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tom Benedict</div><div class="">Seahurst, WA<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 7, 2022, at 15:49, Joan Miller <<a href="mailto:jemskink@gmail.com" class="">jemskink@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi Tweets, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">I thought I'd mention this, as it was surprising to me. Today I was down at Constellation Park, just south of Alki Beach and saw a large flock of brant. They were feeding and hanging out, and occasionally took to the air when a bald eagle flew in. It was lovely to see and hear them. I imagine they are on their way north. There might have been 100-200 birds.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">There was also a flock of peeps, not sure whether they were dunlin.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Spring is happening!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Joan Miller</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">West Seattle</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>