Today Bruce Labar and I met at the Roy Y park-and-ride at 8:30 AM and headed for the Ft. JBLM prairies and Chambers Lake hoping for some early Pierce County birds. At the bobwhite spot a fire may have forced the birds to move, but no luck on them of CAQU but I did get Pierce County FOY Cooper’s Hawk, Wood Duck and CORA. Chambers lake added nothing new but big numbers of RNDU, BUFF and LESC.
Next was the prairies in Area 13 (maybe some on restricted area 14, and 15 where we found a Northern Shrike, but no RLHA or other targets.
A quick trip to Kreger Lake area was quiet, the lakes still iced over, but I did learn of a new way to see Silver Lake from a resort on the back side to avoid stopping on the road by the angry farmer’s driveway, that’s nice Overall a good half day, 5 FOY Pierce birds and almost no rain