Today Kay and I took Dan and Patty Anderson to the upper Swan Creek area to see some of the early arriving passerines.  It was cool but dry and as is often the case at this location birding by ear was great.  Purple finches, Pacific wrens, Spotted towhees, and RB Nuthatches were incessant, and we were able to pick out lots more.  I heard my FOY Cassin’s vireo singing by the canyon wall, lots of Pacific-slope flycatchers, and FOY Black-throated gray warblers were very vocal.  This one came right down to show off for us.

Chipping sparrows were in the area of the burn.

We made quick stops at the 56th St Stormwater ponds (locked again), Levy Pond and then walked around the mitigation by the RR tracks off 70th in Fife.