Subject: Sauvie Is. Mult/Colum. Co's OR 8 Aug 1995
Date: Aug 9 14:52:48 1995
From: "David C. Bailey" - psu03321 at odin.cc.pdx.edu


Obol and Tweets on the other side-o-the river:
I got out to Sauvie Island from 6pm to 8:45pm last evening (8
Aug. 1995). The water level of Sturgeon Lake is now quite suitable for
mas shorebirds to stopover and stage on the Island. This was the first
day this summer so far that I deemed necessary to walk north off the dike
at Coon Point to check the shore on both sides of the point for waders as
there hasn't been much shore up until about a week ago. Both there and
north at Holman point and The Wash off of the Big Eddy parking lot are
well worth checking.

At Coon Point:

1 alternate plumage in pre-basic molt Black-bellied Plover
250 peeps ~70% Western Sandpipers, the rest Least
9 Lesser Yellowlegs
4 Greater Yellowlegs
12 Semipalmated Plovers
Killdeer
Purple martin
1 AHY Don Baccus
1 AHY Cindy Lawes
3 Bonapartes Gulls (1st summer)
Around The Narrows and the Wash:
~70 Caspian Terns including juveniles
3 Bonaparte's Gulls (JUvenile, 1st summer, and adult)
2000 Ring-billed and CAlifornia Gulls (mixed)
250 Peeps
1 Long-billed Dowitcher
6 Lesser Yellowlegs
2 Greater Yellowlegs
2 Red-necked Phalaropes (juv's)

A group of "birders" from WA that I ran into near The Wash said they had
a Peregrin Falcon at The Wash. I don't know who they were despite my
inquirery. They simply said they were on the island for a meeting and
decided to go birding. Did I frighten them?

Later days,

--
David Bailey, psu03321 at odin.cc.pdx.edu