Another fairly miserable morning, with lots of rain.  Amazingly, we got good looks at a few nice birds, but mostly it was a day of slogging through, hearing more than we were seeing, and not even hearing very much.

Highlights:

Wood Duck                 Quite a few mothers with babies
Caspian Tern                Three overhead while we were on the slough trail
Black Swift                   Despite the rain, about 15
Western Kingbird          Seen by a couple of us, East Meadow
Lazuli Bunting               Great looks, NW corner of dog area
Bullock's Oriole            Lots of interactions between males

Normally, we don't see BLACK SWIFTS on rainy days, but probably the lousy weather all over the state probably has pushed them to forage in unusual locations and under inclement conditions.

For the day, just 54 species.

= Michael Hobbs
= BirdMarymoor@frontier.com

The weather was so bad that no photos were obtained on the Thursday walk.  But Ollie and Lillian got out earlier in the week when the weather was better :)

Baby Great Blue Herons are getting large.  Photo by Ollie Oliver, 2012-06-06