May 1	May 2	May 3	May 4	May 5	May 6	May 7
Common Loon						1
Barrow's Goldeneye	2	2
Common Merganser			2
Glaucous-winged gull	8	9	18			8	2
Gull spp		2			8
Marbled murrelet		2
Rhinoceros auklet							6
Bald Eagle					2
Crow		1			1	1	1
weather	sunny, calm				calm, sunny	calm, light rain
cruise ships							1

Note that on the 4th, I didn't see any birds on the water portion of the commute. In the evening of the 4th, I saw 3 Rhinoceros auklets, 5 Marbled murrelets, 1 Pacific loon and a Mew gull.

The trail to the dock was pretty bird rich during this week. There were Golden and White crowned, Fox and Song sparrows; scads of Rufous hummingbirds, Nuthatches, Pine siskins, Winter wrens, Robins, Varied and Hermit thrushes.
Orange crowned warblers were singing in the garden on the 4th of May.

A first for the garden (at least that I observed) was an Olive sided Flycatcher. I was sitng on the boardwalk in the sun, talking on the phone when I noticed an odd looking bird in my peripheral vision in a nearby hemlock. Fortunately, it stuck around for several minutes and I could see the dark vest-like pattern on the chest.
The Menziesia and Red alder leafed out on the island during this period.

I seem to have gotten rather behind in the posts again...

	April 20	April 21	April 22	April 23	April 24	April 29	April 30
Common Loon						1
Pelagic Cormorant				1	3
Mallards	2	4	2
Barrow's goldeneye	2	4	4	2	2	4	2
Bufflehead			2			2
Common merganser	2	4	2	4	1		8
Mew gull		2			1
Herring Gull					1
Thayer's gull							1
Glaucous-winged gull	2			4	4	3	2
Gull spp	30	1		1		1	50
Bald Eagle							1
Raven						1
Shorebirds							60
weather/time	8am	low chop 8am		sunny 8am		sunny 8am

I went to Juneau for a few days so there is a gap in the data collection. The flock of shorebirds on the 30th were on a rock near Morne island. Unfortunatelly I didn't have my binoculars along, so I didn't get a good look at them. My best guess is a mixed flock of Turnstones and Surfbirds, but I'm not convinced.
On the 30th (it was sunny and warm) found Pippets, Townsends warblers, Robins, White-fronted geese, 4 semi-palmated plovers, and Sandhill at Totem Park. The crane did a fly over before it landed by the stream side for a short time then flew off toward Jamestown Bay. Fortunately it flew back, but then overflew the beach and headed toward town. It flew over a couple of other times, but didn't land. The call is pretty distinctive, hard to find words to describe the sound exactly. Patience was helpful in this case as the crane eventually returned and landed in the tide flats, so I got a good look.
Also in this period (based on my notebook) I seem to have collected alot of herring eggs for the garden and