I found a great birding trail this morning. It's flanked by dense but short alders, where birds can feel safe in the thicket but are still fairly visible to birders. I saw a flycatcher (I think it was an ALFL, but can't be sure until I get my bird book, it sounded like an Alder), BCCH which scolded me from an arm's length away, RBNUs everwhere, several NOFL, WTSPs singing, SOSPs chipping, BAEA soaring and later a BWHA! and of course DCCO and HEGU flying overhead. Good bird day! Two different XXWA (one may have been a Magnolia Warbler, the other one I have no idea); and a BTNW which I heard and then saw.
Nice clear morning; some high clouds are rolling in this afternoon.