Hi Tweeters,
Just a few notes about my field trip group's birding near Gray's Harbor
today. A bit unusual were a Western Kingbird at the Hoquiam treatment
ponds, seen both in the morning and late afternoon on the low fence
surrounding the main pond near the northwest part of the pond; and an
immature Glaucous Gull at Bill Spit, roosting with gulls (still a few
immature Mews here) and Caspian Terns. At high tide in mid-afternoon,
hundreds of shorebirds on the northwest part of the Ocean Shores golf course
(Marbled Godwits, breeding plumage Black-bellied Plovers, Short-billed
Dowitchers, Dunlin, Semipalmated Plovers, Western Sandpipers. Seven species
of warblers today at assorted spots, with several rain-drenched Townsend's
at Ocean City State Park, singing Black-throated Gray and Yellow at the Rock
Candy Mt. turnoff, and lots of Myrtle & Audubon Yellow-rumped's along the
Bowerman boardwalk.

Bob


Bob Sundstrom
Seattle, WA
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