A bit off topic but several ABC members including Kay and me, Diane, Faye, Caroline and Mike joined trip leaders Charlie Wright and Bruce LaBar on the TAS trip to Skagit yesterday.  The most remarkable thing for sure was the incredible sunny and warm weather, but the birds were great too.  My highlight was seeing 2 “blue geese” in the big flock of snow geese on Fir Island, and finding a new roost side for the Black-crowned Night Herons.  Incredibly they were in a fir tree behind a nursing home right in the middle of a town (? Stanwood).  We also found 3 Merlins, a Peregrine, several Am. Kestrel, 2 Short-eared owls, 2 Snowy Owls and many W. Meadowlarks, several N. Shrike, and the usual winter birds.

Let’s be sure to continue to lead TAS trips too as they not only provide all of us with good birding opportunities but contribute to TAS and the whole birding community.