| 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.
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