Subject: birding in ocean shores; august--19
Date: Aug 20 10:13:16 1997
From: "Ruth Sullivan" - GODWIT at worldnet.att.net


hello birders,
on the way to ocean shores between satsop and montesano there where22
turkey vulture circle overhead.in ocean shores i spend most my time on
damon point; this are the birds i founnd on damon point pond;
9STILT SAND PIPERS: ONE IN BREEDING PLUMAGE<took some good photos>
6 semipalmated sandpipers
5 bairds sandpipers
34 long billed- dowitcher
6 lesser yellowlegs
4 greater yellowlegs
4 pectoral sandpipers
1peregrine falcon
2000 least sandpipers on the beach where the canada goose mostly resting.

on bills-spit;
150 black-bellied plovers, half of theme where still in full breeding
plumage
40marblet gotwits
98 dowitcher species
2 whimbrel
150- peeps

the marsh and wetland across the firestation had150 least and western
sandpipers
but what was the only ONE COMMON MURRE doing there? he seems to be alright.

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