Hi, Tweets. An abbreviated addition to the round of posts regarding bird
movements and sightings --

Pt. Wilson, Oct. 20: Oldsquaw (Long-Tailed Duck), 1 drake

Dungeness NWR yesterday, Oct. 23:

Red-Throated Loon (2), Common Loon (lots) -- no Pacifics
Horned, Red-necked, Western grebes -- all in good numbers
BRANT (flock of 12, flew in just as we were leaving)
Bufflehead (1 drake), Red-Breasted Mergansers (several), scoters
Black-bellied Plover (lots)
golden plover sp. (1, seen overhead -- don't know these by specific calls yet)
Semipalmated Plover (2), Killdeer (1)
Black Turnstone (approx. 8)
Red Knot (1 juvenile)
Sanderling (approx. 400?)
Western Sandpiper (1 juvenile)
Dunlin (approx. 300?)
Common Murre (2), Pigeon Guillemot (approx. 12), Marbled Murrelet (>/= 6)

Numbers are approximate; shorebirds in particular were alternately calm and
tolerant or edgy -- no merlin or peregrine around, either, though I think a
harrier was the source of fear for the golden plover. Stuart: are you
interested in sanderling info from the Strait of Juan de Fuca? As I
remember, they are around Port Townsend in small numbers nearly all winter
(as I also remember from Edmonds a few years ago).

Also visited (NOT Strait of Juan de Fuca) --

Shine Tidelands & Salisbury Pt. (north side of Hood Canal bridge), Oct. 21
(numbers fluctuated; these are from a scan of approx. 15 minutes):

Common Loon 7
Red-necked Grebe 3
Western Grebe 16 + raft of 27
Horned Grebe 5
Double-crested Cormorant 3
White-winged Scoter 1
Surf Scoter 5
Glaucous-winged Gull approx. 20
California Gull 3
Bonaparte's Gull 14
Common Tern approx. 30 in flight; 86 perched along north side of bridge
Pigeon Guillemot 12
Rhinoceros Auklet 4
Common Murre 2
Marbled Murrelet 26

Am still in search of my first yellow-billed loon and errant eider ...

Cheers --

Janet Hardin
Port Townsend, WA
wings at olympus.net