Mercer Slough Nature Park

We spent Monday night in Renton, a suburb of Seattle. A cell phone tower next to the hotel had nesting Ospreys. We spent an hour and a half on Tuesday morning, August 12th at Mercer Slough ahead of our flight back home. We wandered around the reserve in light drizzle, and the birds were quiet. But we did see both Black-capped and Chestnut-backed Chickadees in the trees and a Swainson's Thrush on the forest floor. We go to pick blueberries that had sprawled from a farm onto the reserve.

Glaucous-winged Gull

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Osprey