Date: 6/22/26 9:09 pm From: Jim Betz via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: [Tweeters] Wiley Slough
Hi all,
I went to Wiley today and spent from before 7am to after 10am. I got
all the way to
where the 'dike trail' turns into single track.
I saw lots of robins (perhaps twice to three times as many as
typical), heard lots of marsh
wrens (normal, and even saw a couple - also typical), and saw and heard
lots of Red-winged
Blackbirds. One Bald Eagle, a fair number of crows, normal amounts of
sparrows (although
not very many White-crowned). And one Great-Horned Owl (Yeah!).
What I did not see were any gulls, any Great Blue Herons, no Osprey,
very few ducks
(about a dozen mallards is all), no shorebirds (other than one Killdeer,
but zero Yellowlegs,
zero sandpipers/peeps of any kind), and no Kingfishers.
My overall bird count was pretty normal, the number of species was
low (very low?).
The tide was low (slack water) when I got there and stayed low the
entire 3 hours
(no 'flow' in the water runs between the cattails).
- Jim in Skagit
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