Hi Tweets,

It's not high season for lots of birds on the coast, almost no shorebirds and few
ducks, but Barbara and I just returned from a week of decent birding from the Long
Beach peninsula in SW WA south to Cape Meares. We had 87 species by the end of the
week. Highlights: a peregrine falcon apparently nesting on the north side of Cape
Meares: we watched it kill and devour a pigeon guillemot; the thousands of common
murres between Cape Meares and Ecola Park near Cannon Beach; the arrival of the
brown pelicans at Ecola Point on June 16; a young bald eagle harrassing gulls there
just a few feet over the surf, almost stepping on four whimbrels near Chinook, WA.
On the way back we stopped to bird the marsh at the now dead Trojan (nuclear) power
plant on the Oregon side of the Columbia. It's a strange feeling to be almost alone
in an area designed to host hundreds of people at once. Almost as if we were the
only ones who along with the birds survived a Trojan meltdown.

Would be interested in reactions to the assertion that one shouldn't look for
northwest crows south of Tillamook Head.

PWebst25