It was a very "birdy" day today at the lake. There was a wide variety of waterfowl including ruddy ducks, scaup, ring-necked ducks, redheads, a cinnamon teal and a blue-winged teal. A black-necked stilt was flying around looking for some mud and two osprey were fishing. Swallows were abundant - cliff, violet green and tree. There were also a couple barn swallows and two Vaux's swifts. Western kingbirds were chattering in all the trees - we saw at least 20. A Say's phoebe was calling from a snag. We heard a Lazuli bunting and Hammond's flycatchers in the brush plus a few yellow warblers and house wrens. Calliope hummingbirds were displaying. Ruby-crowned kinglets were singing and one of them was fussing at red-breasted nuthatch. We saw and heard 52 species.
The biggest treat of the morning was several singing coyotes. They serenaded us several times as we walked around the lake from up on the east side. We should have more summer birds by next week so stay tuned..... Ginger
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