Stuart:
>Clouds of shorebirds on the beach at Ocean Shores:

>30 - 40,000 dunlin including 2 color banded birds - but I didn't get enough
>time to read to complete combinations :'-(

They were probably banded in Michigan :) :)

>2 red knot
>12 short-billed dowitchers
>thousands of western sandpipers
>piles of black bellied plover

On OBOL this AM there was a post mentioning thousands of
sanderling on the ocean side of Bayocean Spit (the spit that
separates Tillamook Bay from the briny sea).

Made me think of you, Stuart :)

The post also mentioned scattered dunlin, western peeps, etc, but
apparently the bulk of the birds were sanderling, all along a
three-mile stretch of the spit.

Anyone relocate the Bar-tailed Godwit this weekend?

- Don Baccus, Portland OR <donb at rational.com>