Finally a summery day!  Still a cool 50 degrees to start, but by 10:30, it approached 70.  And there was sun.  Fairly birdy too.

The most notable highlight was the LEAST FLYCATCHER, still singing incessantly from the grove on the north side of Dog Central, the main dog swim beach with the bulletin board and benches.  This bird has remained  in this tiny grove of willows and cottonwoods for 8 days at least, and he might be settled down for longer.

Other highlights:

Green Heron            Two flew down the slough early
Caspian Tern            One over the lake
Purple Martin           One female heading towards the lake
Wilson's Warbler     One across the slough from the windmill
Bullock's Oriole        Several sightings

There are lots of baby birds about, which provided us with strange noises to track down.  We had a both MALLARD and WOOD DUCK ducklings, a young WILLOW FLYCATCHER huddled on a branch, juvenile TREE SWALLOWS on dead twigs hanging over the slough, and near the start of the boardwalk there was an adult and a juvenile RED-BREASTED SAPSUCKER, among many others.

An Eastern Kingbird was seen as recently as Tuesday.  The Ash-throated
Flycatcher has not been seen since Saturday, to the best of my knowledge.

For the day, 61 species.

== Michael

Juvenile Tree Swallows

Band-tailed Pigeon.  Photo by Ollie Oliver