Today I met Bruce Labar and Will Brooks to try for owls before getting out on the Citizens for a Clean Sound boat to bird the salt water areas of the count circle. We managed to find just one Great-horned owl at Pt Defiance and missed Saw-whet owl there as well as missing Barred owl at Puget Park.
We spent a little time on Ruston Way looking for Black turnstones, and missed them too.
The boat left at 9 AM with Sam at the helm, and is a very nice boat for birding. It has am covered relatively heated area with good visibility, and we did the usual route. Best birds were 4 Ancient murrelets spotted flying away by Will, a flock of 10 Long-tailed ducks, and lots of gulls and common alcids to sort through and count. I did the number recording, but was still able to get looks at all of the species and lots of birds.
After finishing at 2 PM I dashed to Brett’s to finish the shed roof before getting a text from Michael C. that their CBC group had a flock of 29 Common redpolls on Alexander Ave near the power station. I dashed there directly, met Bruce there, but the CORE had apparently moved on through.