Hello Tom,
It's a shame whatever happen in Ocean Shores, the Birds are not there for
some reason.It realy started when the Game-Range split up, cause this was
Nature, nobody to blame on this. Also the sewage ponds the mess this is, no
more birds there. Remember the nylon line there put over the ponds so the
Canada Geese can not fly in, it killed many Gulls and terns.I start going
to Ocean Shores since 1986 and we had always many many Shorebirds with some
good rarities. The Name Ocean Shores always mean Shorebirds. It's going to
be to many people tramping all over. The Signs about the Snowy Plover are
also ignored, many times i will point this out to people what this signs
means, and still there will not care. I am kind of happy now, i am looking
for Dragonflies. I found a nnew first County record in Olympia The
PACIFIC CLUBTAIL Gomphus Kurilis. First Record this year.
Ruth Sullivan

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> From: Tom Schooley <dunlin at mail.tss.net>
> To: Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
> Cc: Bill&Lucy Winter Tweit <sebnabgill at aol.com>
> Subject: Paving Damon Point
> Date: Sunday, August 16, 1998 5:10 PM
>
> I'm sure Damon Point, or Catala Spit for us oldtimers, at Ocean Shores is
a
> favorite place for many of us in the birdwatching community. But its
> future is now in for some major changes.
>
> I do not know if this is good or bad, but the road out Damon Point will
be
> paved in the near future. Yes, that makes it easier for us to get out
the
> spit, but that's true for everyone. More traffic is the only certain
> result.
>
> As for birds along that stretch, yesterday (8/15) I saw very few
> shorebirds. One Semipalmated Plover, three Sanderling (2 juveniles), and
a
> few small flocks of Western Sandpipers were along the end of the point.
In
> the waters many Brown Pelicans and Heermann's Gulls are around. A Black
> Scoter and two Pacific Loons were unusual for the middle of August.
>
> At Bill's Spit there were many Whimbrel and dowitchers and A Bar-tailed
> Godwit. Two White Pelicans are cruising the bayshore regularly according
> to locals.
>
> No rocky shorebirds were seen at Pt. Brown Jetty.
>
>
> Good birding (while it lasts)
> a pessimistic Tom Schooley, Olympia WA , dunlin at mail.tss.net
> "The earth that directed itself instinctively in its former phases
> seems now to be entering a phase of conscious decision
> through its human expression." -Thomas Berry