I'll be visiting from California for two weeks beginning Sunday and,
apart from gulling at the Thurston Co. Landfill as much as possible,
I hope to increase my odds of finding:

1. Snow Bunting
2. Gyrfalcon
3. Snowy Owl (not this year?)
4. Bohemian Waxwing
5. Rock Sandpiper
6. Ancient Murrelet
7. Tufted Puffin

I've got directions to Cougar Mtn for the waxwings, and was hoping
to get the others around Ocean Shores... but all I've heard out
of there this year is the sandpiper, which is the lowest priority
of that list. I'll probably have a chance for only a single day
trip for these-- so do I sacrifice the alcids and head to Skagit/
Samish Flats? If so, can someone tell me where to go there?
I've never been there.

thanks!

Steve Hampton

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hampton at primal.ucdavis.edu
http://www.agecon.ucdavis.edu/homepages/hampton/index.htm

Dept. of Ag. and Resource Economics
UC Davis, Davis, CA 95616 USA