North-northwest winds today.  Not usually great conditions for Asian vagrants, but northerly winds will usually knock down a few trans-oceanic migrants, and today was no exception.  There was one Bar-tailed Godwit on Clam Lagoon all day, plus another flew over Contractors Camp, and late in the day we found 4 Pacific Golden-Plovers along the road near Palisades Lake.

Some other highlights include 1 male Tufted Duck (found by Isaac Helmericks a few weeks ago), 3 Eurasian Wigeon, 2 Emperor Geese (also found by Isaac), an Arctic Loon…

Not a high-quality shot, but it shows the flank patch

…Ancient Murrelets are also showing in numbers close to shore.  Two were in the small boat harbor.  Here’s one of them:

My battery is running low, so that’s it for today.

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