With my list filling in nicely, there are not a lot of expected birds left to find for my Big Year.  One of the trickiest is the Red Knot.  Earlier this month, 3000 were seen in a single day near Gray’s Harbor, Washington.  They nest in northern Alaska, so you’d expect to see good numbers along our coast.  (K)not so!  Small numbers of knots do show up on the island, but are rarely reported.  The flocks probably fly directly from their feeding grounds in Gray’s Harbor to Alaska, with just a few stragglers stopping along the coast to refuel and rest.  Talk about your needle in a haystack!  But you won’t find if you don’t look, so on Tuesday, I enlisted the help of Daniel Donnecke and we headed out to Jordan River to see what we might find.

It was a very interesting day.  We tallied 66 species in the Jordan River area, but didn’t see any migrating shorebirds.  Black Oystercatchers and Killdeer were there, but no peeps, no turnstones and no knots.  The highlight was probably warbler cooperation.  We got great looks at Wilson’s Warblers and even managed a photo or two.

There were several surprising misses, including Bewick’s Wren and Spotted Towhee.  With a bit of luck, you could probably get 75+ species in Jordan River right now.

On our way back to town, we stopped for a look at Cathy Carlson’s feeders. A side bonus was tea and cookies with Cathy and her husband Ted!  There were many American Goldfinches at the feeders, but no repeat of the Lesser Goldfinch from a couple of years ago.

Cathy and Ted also host a large flock of pigeons, both Band-tailed Pigeon and the recently arrived Eurasian Collared-doves.

Steller’s Jays and Black-headed Grosbeaks were also coming to the feeders and posed a little for us.
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Continuing homeward, we stopped at Whiffin Spit in hopes of turning up a Ruddy Turnstone, but we were too early.

It was a great day of birding, but no new species for either my year or Capital Region lists.

Wednesday was one of the few non-birding days I’ve had this year.  My sister and brother-in-law were arriving from California mid-day, and let’s just say that my housekeeping style has been even more “drop and run” than  usual.  Not to mention a septic tank issue that took up more of the day than I would have hoped.  What is it with me and sewage these days?

Esther (my sister) and I did go for a walk up Observatory Hill. I was hoping a Western Wood-pewee might materialize, but all was quiet.