Subject: Re: shorebirds late?
Date: Apr 24 08:40:56 1995
From: Don Baccus - donb at Rational.COM


I was just in Newport this weekend, to photograph shorebirds during
a good light/high tide combination (high tide was around 7 Pm and
7:40 PM Fri and Sat).

Friday's evening tide saw NOTHING in Yaquina Bay except perhaps
a dozen marbled godwit feeding well out from me.

But Saturday's evening tide saw several hundred dowitcher, a few
red knot, a few dunlin, and a couple of good-sized flocks of
western sandpiper. Had a surprise - two people from Corvallis
who're just getting into shorebirds (a married couple). Normally
I'm there by myself for these events (and wouldn't mind keeping
it that way! Note I'm posting to tweeters, not OBOL - stay
north, folks!).

But they had the good sense to stay still and feeding dowitcher
came with 20 ft, and western sandpipers and dunlin within
about 10 ft. They're sold on shorebirds now, hadn't heard
of Bowerman Basin and are headed north in a couple of
weekends after hearing me rave.

Maybe migration's picking up...

-Don Baccus-