Subject: Good day to all!!!!!!!
Date: Jul 5 18:17:28 2000
From: Gerald Hamilton - gerald at e-z.net


...............Hiked up the ocean beach on the north end of Long Beach
peninsula, Wash. this Monday.....as the tide was coming in. Short-billed
Dowitchers are migrating, as quite a few were observed....along with
zillions of West. Sandpipers(in various stages of changing from their
breeding plumages), Black-bellied Plovers(also "changing over"), and
some Semi-palmated Plovers. One Least Sandpiper was seen by itself next
to some flotsam on the beach. Didn't see one single Sanderling
anywhere!!(unusual).
................3 species of Sparrows,; 3 species of Swallows; a Belted
Kingfisher, and a number of Caspian Terns observed. Small groups of
Brown Pelicans occasionally flew by over the ocean. Lots of crabs being
washed ashore(which the Gulls quickly finished off!!!).
................Then watched the tide recede on the Willapa Bay side.
Other than flocks of Western Sandpipers and about 10 Great Blue Herons,
things were pretty quiet. Cormorants, 2 immature Caspian Terns, and an
unidentified Hawk flew overhead. Lots of Swallows, Sparrows. and 3 Cedar
Waxwings.
..................Have a 'good one'!!!

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