We Pierce County listers have been impatiently waiting for the first big fall windstorm to blow in pelagic and maybe other rarities to pad our year lists. Today it blew and rained heavily in the AM, and the sun came out but the wind continued to gust in the afternoon. I worked the AM around the condo, finally devoting a bit of time to clearing out the storage area, made trips to goodwill and Habitat for Humanity as well as Best Buy to turn in an extra printer, but the sunshine drew me to Point Defiance for a little peak in the afternoon.
Kay was still out running errands, so I didn’t feel too guilty. At the point one of the first birds I saw was a lone Snow Goose, fighting to fly against the wind up the waterway at the Dalco Passage overlook. This seemed promising, but the fight to hold either the scope or binos still in the strong gusts limited visibility and I found nothing else unusual.