Julia Lippert and I spent the weekend at Tokeland hotel. Some bird
highlights follow:

Nov 11 TOKELAND:
496 MARBLED GODWITS (yes I counted them)
11 WILLETS
NO AVOCET OR BAR-TAIL
3 WHIMBRELS
52 LONG-BILLED CURLEWS
300 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS

NOV 12 OCEAN SHORES GAME RANGE
1 SNOWY OWL being dive-bombed repeatedly by an extremely vocal PEALE'S
PEREGRINE FALCON
The owl was perched on the sand spit next to a log and I never would have
seen it if the peregrine had not kept diving toward the spot where it sat.
The peregrine perched on a high log a few hundred feet west of the owl,
yakking almost continuously. It would intermittently fly low over toward
the owl and then sweep up about a hundred vertical feet before diving down
at a steep angle toward the owl, and turning away at the last second. Quite
a show for the end of the weekend.

Tried to pish up a palm warbler near the marina but it was dead as a
doornail. As it turned out had one right under our nose down at Tokeland
and didn't know it. That's what I get for reading tweeters before a trip,
but not also checking the birdbox every day I'm out birding!

Also, late report of 13 GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE at Nisqually on Nov 5.

Chris Chappell
cchappell at thurston.com
Olympia