Subject: Re: Ocean Shores: Gazillions of shorebirds
Date: Jul 31 09:33:46 1995
From: Scott Richardson - richasar at dfw.wa.gov


On Mon, 31 Jul 1995, Stuart MacKay wrote:
> Ocean Shores, Sat July 29, 1995
> I saw some really neat stuff at Ocean Shores while managing to ignore the
> freeway style traffic roaring up and down the beach - when I become World
> President this sort of activity will be one of the first things to go :-)):
>
> 2500 - 3000 sanderling
> 5600 semi-palmated plover (1 juvenile)
> 7 marbled godwit
> 2700 western sandpipers
> 2 whimbrel
> 49 black-bellied plover
> 241 dowitchers
> 5 least sandpipers
> 24 ruddy turnstone

Same day, 2 hours at Damon Point allowed views of scattered Killdeer,
Semipalmated Plover, Greater and Lesser yellowlegs, a Red-necked
Phalarope, one dowitcher, and a snowy plover with a brood of 3.

Also, from Aberdeen to Ocean Shores, the sound of grunting hogs filled the
air (a Harley Davidson riders' gathering).

Scott Richardson
Olympia
richasar at dfw.wa.gov