Subject: tropical kingbirds -- no
Date: Oct 28 21:54:17 2000
From: Jim McCoy - jfmccoy at earthlink.net


We drove out to Ocean Shores and spent just under three hours at Damon
Point. The wind was *really* blowing, and there was intermittent rain that
was at times very heavy. If the tropical kingbirds were present, they were
deeply under cover, but I scouted around a good bit, and there didn't seem
to be much vegetation that was standing up to the wind. It looked as though
perching anywhere off the ground in the vicinity would be exhausting. I
wouldn't be surprised if they got blown right out of there, or at best
grabbed cover a few hundred yards away.

The (partial) take: common loon, horned and red-necked grebe, surf scoter,
pintail, 2nd-winter Heermann's gull, American pipit, western meadowlark,
savannah sparrow, dunlin, western and least sandpiper, sanderling, black
turnstone, semipalmated plover, ring-necked pheasant, northern harrier (both
sexes)

Jim McCoy
jfmccoy at earthlink.net
Redmond, WA