Subject: Recapping a few recent sightings
Date: Oct 9 11:56:53 2000
From: Robert Sundstrom - ixoreus at home.com


Hi Tweeters,

Wanted to pass along a few notes following a short birding tour Oct. 2-7.

Oct. 7: A Great Egret and at least four Eurasian Wigeons were at Blaine, in
the east corner on the north side of the spit that runs out to the Drayton
Harbor dock. Thousands of dabblers and Mew Gulls at this spot.
A Northern Shrike and three Thayer's Gulls at the Iona Ponds in B.C.,
Parasitic Jaeger at the tip of the South Jetty. (Thousands of scoters now
at typical concentration points like the Iona South Jetty, Penn Cove, etc.)

Oct. 6: Still at least two Crested Mynas at First and Wylie in downtown
Vancouver; saw three there two weeks earlier.

Oct. 5: Along the Hurricane Ridge Rd. at the scenic pullout just below the
tunnels, a very confiding, rich brown colored Northern Pygmy-Owl and an
adult Northern Shrike (presumably a migrant through this heavily forested
zone). Eurasian Wigeons with thousands of Americans at the mouth of the
Dungeness River. 25 Greater White-fronted Geese at the duck ponds along
Kitchen-Dick Rd. near Sequim.

Oct. 4: The Emperor Goose persists at Lincoln Park in Pt. Angeles. It has
molted into impeccable adult plumage from its worn juvenile plumage of the
summer. Lots of Red Crossbills from Humptulips north feeding on Western
Hemlock; same noted on Whidbey Island Oct. 6. At least one Thayer's Gull at
Ediz Hook.

Oct. 3: There was a basic plumaged Yellow-billed Loon seen from Westport
from the wooden viewing platform on the north side of the harbor. There was
a big movement of Steller's Jays at Toke Point including a single Western
Scrub-Jay. There were 3 Bar-tailed Godwits with the large godwit flock at
Toke Point near the marina, and there was a single Palm Warbler today in a
large movement of all sorts of migrating sparrows and other birds near the
Best Western Lighthouse Hotel in Ocean Shores at the west end of Damon Road.
I also saw a Franklin's Gull flying down the beach from the same motel.

Good luck out there!

Bob Sundstrom
Seattle, WA
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