Hi Tweets,

As well as the Black Phoebe this evening, another very unexpected (and
*very* rare for Vancouver BC in July) bird was an adult *Lincoln's Sparrow*,
probably a busted non-breeder.

For shorebirds, there were godzillions of Western Sandpipers came bombing in
tonight on the rising tide, crowding onto the logbooms on the North Arm of
the Fraser River to the N of the settling ponds to roost for 30 minutes,
then all four settling ponds to feed. It was pretty nuts: there could have
been a dozen each Little and Red-necked Stints in those flocks, and I was
the only person there all evening until my call brought the phoebe-hunters.
Embarrassment of riches.

Conditions: Temp: 18-20 C, dropping; Wind: S 15 km/hr to SE 20-25 km/hr;
Barom: weak High; Cloud: 8/10, increasing as a bloody great cumulonimbus
cell crossed over Georgia Strait toward the Mainland; Visibility: unlimited
except where obscured across the Strait by local squalls; Precip: trace;
Tide: half-flood to high.

Incomplete count, curtailed by weather.

Great Blue Heron 4
Green-winged Teal 2m 1 ecl
Mallard 8 3f 4y, 1m ecl
Northern Pintail 1f (southbound return?, not there before)
Blue-winged Teal 3 1f 1m, 1m ecl
Northern Shoveler 6 1f 5y
Gadwall 9 1f 9y
Cooper's Hawk 1m ad
Ring-necked Pheasant 1m
Black-bellied Plover 1 overflight
Killdeer 1a
Greater Yellowlegs 1 Def Alt
Lesser Yellowlegs 5 Def Alt
Spotted Sandpiper 2 ad
Semipalmated Sandpiper 31 30 Def Alt, 1 retained Basic (there were more)
--very juv-looking except for worn tertials.
Western Sandpiper ~12,000 all Def or Ptl Alt
Least Sandpiper 17 all Def Alt
Long-billed Dowitcher 3 all Def Alt
Ring-billed Gull ~60 Iona Causeway
California Gull 1 Alt 2
Glaucous-winged Gull ~25 15a, 10 imm (most Alt 1)
Caspian Tern 2a
*Black Phoebe* 1
Tree Swallow 3 1a 2f or juv
Cliff Swallow 5
Barn Swallow 42
Northwestern Crow 2
Marsh Wren 1m
American Robin 1f
European Starling ~200 juvs, no adults
Common Yellowthroat 2 1m
Spotted Towhee 2m
*Lincoln's Sparrow* 1a average southbound arrival Aug 25
Red-winged Blackbird 11 2m 8f or juv
Yellow-headed Blackbird 1m ad (no juv begging calls in usual spots)
Brown-headed Cowbird 38 26f 12m in flock at S end, Causeway
House Finch ~125 all ages, first post-breeding flock at Iona
American Goldfinch 3 1m 2f

Yahoo.

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Vancouver BC Canada was only one of theirs,
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-Max Carlson (Ron Carlson's dog)