<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><div style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000"><div><span style="text-decoration: underline;" data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Highlights from Fir Island and farther north on 10.05.22:</strong></span></div><br><div>Snow Goose - 150 on Maupin Rd on Fir Island</div><div>Snow Goose - 1 of the 150 with a bill the size of a Ross's, but otherwise a Snow; likely a hybrid</div><div>Cackling Goose - many, many skeins of minima heading south</div><div>Merlin - female Taiga on Wylie Rd</div><div>Peregrine - 2 at Hayton</div><div>American Avocet - 2 continuing at Hayton</div><div>Pacific Golden-Plover - close overhead at Hayton, IDd to which GP by sound</div><div>Semipalmated Plover - Hayton</div><div>Short-billed Dowitcher - 1 at Hayton; videos</div><div>Long-billed Dowitcher - few at Hayton & 300 at Channel Drive</div><div>Greater Yellowlegs - few at Hayton & CD (Channel Drive)</div><div>Lesser Yellowlegs - 3 at CD</div><div>Western Sandpiper - few at Hayton; none at CD</div><div>Least Sandpiper - few at hayton; none at CD</div><div>Dunlin - none anywhere I went</div><div>Pectoral Sandpiper - 39 & more at Hayton; only 1 at CD; did not see sharp-tailed again at CD; videos from Hayton</div><div>Great Horned owl - well heard before light at Wylie (now open)</div><div>Barn Swallow - several locations; 20 along Maupin Rd</div><div>American Pipit - 2 at Hayton (only 2)</div><div>Northern Shrike - 1 juv at CD; first of season for me</div><div>White-crowned Sparrow - both pugetensis & gambelii singing at CD</div><div>Western Meadowlark - 1 seen at Hayton</div><br><div>Marv Breece<br>Tukwila, WA<br>marvbreece@q.com<br><br>....that the elected might never form to themselves an interest separate from the electors ...<br> - Thomas Paine, from Common Sense</div></div><br></div></div></body></html>