Bob Boekelheide & Dave Baudett (sp) found a SnBu on Ediz Hook yesterday.
It was just inside the Coast Guard fence on the grass before the runway and
on the jetty on the Strait side.
This morning there were three who worked the area 50 yards this side of
the Coast Guard fence all morning until about 11. Fresh observers arrived
wanting to see the SnBu's and we finally located 4 at the east end of the
runway near the end of the Hook.
Also of note: A Short-eared Owl over the end of the Hook being harassed
repeatedly by an adult Peregrine which seemed to want to chase him to Canada.
The SEOw finally left going that way over the Strait while the Peregrine flew
west along the Hook.
A Rock Sandpiper, 5 Pacific Plovers, a Whimbrel, 3 Least Sandpipers, my
first Barrow's Goldeneyes of the season (6), my first Thayer's Gulls of the
season (about 30 in the front ranks of the largest gull flock) and about 10
Brandt's Cormorant were also noted as well as good numbers of the more usual
species. (BB saw a Ruddy Turnstone on Saturday).
No Snowy Owl and further afield no Sharp Tailed Sandpiper or Gyrfalcon
have been reported.
Bob Norton
Joyce (near Port Angeles), WA
norton360 at aol.com