.............Went to the Long Beach Peninsula for several days this last
weekend. However......I did the unthinkable!!!!!! I left my binos. and
scope at home!!!!!!!! So what birds I saw were seen purely by the naked
eye.....and this alone 'didn't quite hack it'!!!!!!! Anyway, for what it
is worth, here's what I observed with what God gave me:

Mallards
one white and black duck(Bufflehead or Scaup possibly)
Blue Herons
Sanderlings(numerous)
Western Sandpipers(even more numerous)
Black-bellied Plovers
Dunlin(a few)
Black Turnstones(feasting on piles of oyster shells)
Long-billed Dowitchers(2)
Western Grebes
Brown Pelicans(4)
Gulls
Canada Geese(subspecies unidentified)(some were Duskies)
Sparrows(species unidentified---for obvious reasons)
Crows
Harrier Hawk
Red-tailed Hawks
Robins
Double-crested Cormorants

..........Many flocks of ducks flew over Willapa Bay, but was unable to
identify without binos. I did not go to the north jetty area just south
of Illwaco, which probably would have been more fruitful in terns of
bird-watching. However, I did enloy my 3 days of' R & R.'

Gerald Hamilton
Brush Prairie, Wash.
gerald at e-z.net