Hello Tweets,

I birded E.Grays Harbor Co. today between Brady and Elma, starting with the
N.MOCKINGBIRD in Elma along W.Waldrip Street. The bird is most easily
accessed by taking the Elma Exit off of Hwy.8, then proceed north to E.Main
Street, then turn left and proceed west following signs to Elma. Travel
west to 14th Street, turn left, then right on W.Waldrip. The bird was seen
on 1-3 at the house on your right(1410 W.Waldrip), but I observed and
photographed the bird today at 8:30am, across the street in a small
woodlot. The bird probably moves around the area. 4 W.SCRUB JAYS and 1
R.B.SAPSUCKER were also present in the vicinity. My next stop was made
along N.Blockhouse Rd., accessed off of Hwy.12, heading south of Elma.
Continue south on the road for about a 1/2 mile or less, until you come to
extensive manure piles, where there is a road into the piles. Park across
the street next to the fenced electrical station, then walk in towards the
piles. Check ALL the blackberry brambles as I did TWICE or more, if you
have time that surround the piles. Trucks were actively dumping manure and
compost material throughout the day, so BEWARE, as the sparrows fly around
to other bramble patches. I birded the patch from 9-11am. with NO luck with
the CLAY-COLORED SPARROW, then returned at 12:30pm, and observed the bird
at 1pm, along with a single white-striped WHITE-THROATED SPARROW with White
and Golden-crowned Sparrows, Fox, Song, and 4 Lincoln's Sparrows. The birds
move around alot, and are also present on the other side of the fenced area
to the east of the "piles". Other notable highlights at this location
included: 1 MERLIN, 68 MOURNING DOVES, and 7 Tundra Swans(in the flooded
area to the east). I birded the south end of N.Bockhouse Rd., just before
you cross the RR tracks, which overlooks a large field and flooded areas to
the SE. Both species of swans were present with Tundras being the most
prevalent, and 2 GR.WHITE-FRONTED GEESE with 5 "Dusky" Canada Geese in the
closest field. I birded the Satsop-Brady area, with other highlights that
included: 2 CANVASBACKS and 7 RUDDY DUCKS in a rather large mixed scaup
flock at Vance Creek Co.Park, and 3 EUR.WIGEON, 1 EUR.X AM.WIGEON in a
large flock of Am.Wigeons and N.Pintails with 45 Dunlin along the west end
of Brady Loop Rd. in Brady. Heading home I stopped at Kennedy Creek(Mason
Co.), where a PEREGRINE FALCON chased Dunlin and B.B.Plovers, and a
first-winter GLAUCOUS GULL at Mud Bay(Thurston Co.)travelling along Hwy.8.,
then my last stop made at Harry Todd Park on Am.Lake, where the LITTLE GULL
is still present with good numbers of Boneaparte's Gulls.

Patrick Sullivan
GODWIT at worldnet.att.net