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</div><div>Green Heron</div><div>American Bittern</div><div>Great Blue Heron</div><div><br>
</div><div>Tree, Violet-green, Northern Rough-winged, Bank, Cliff & Barn Swallows</div><div><br>
</div><div>Various ducks, including hard to identify Cinnamon and/or Blue-winged Teal in or molting into eclipse plumage.</div><div><br>
</div><div>Semipalmated Plover - 1 adult</div><div>Killdeer - a few</div><div>Lesser Yellowlegs - 3 juvs & likely more</div><div>Spotted Sandpiper - 2</div><div>Semipalmated Sandpiper - 3 juvs <a href="https://flic.kr/p/2riX2Ss ">https://flic.kr/p/2riX2Ss </a> <a href="https://flic.kr/p/2riYcWk">https://flic.kr/p/2riYcWk</a></div><div>Least Sandpiper - about 20 adults and juveniles</div><div><br>
</div><div>This has been an unusual July for SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS at M Street. There have been at least 6 individuals since July 3. Three adults and three juveniles. On July 24 alone, there were 4 individuals: three juveniles and one adult. Links above show 3 semis in the same videos.</div><div><br>
</div><div>Over several visits I have witnessed Merlin, Peregrine Falcon and Cooper's Hawks hunting the shorebirds.</div><div><br>
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</div><div style="margin-top:2px; margin-bottom:2px">Marv Breece<br>
Tukwila, WA<br>
<a href="mailto:marvbreece@q.com">marvbreece@q.com</a><br>
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....that the elected might never form to themselves an interest separate from the electors ...<br>
- Thomas Paine, from Common Sense<br>
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