Subject: Skagit & Sammish Flats 8/11
Date: Aug 11 15:17:04 2001
From: Stuart MacKay - stuart at blarg.net
English Boom, Stanwood: 7.05-7.50am
14 purple martins
2 hairy woodpeckers
1 Hutton's vireo
2 western wood peewees
3 ospreys
20 killdeer
2 least sandpipers
1 greater yellowlegs
3 red crossbills
Browns Slough Wildlife Area & Jensen Access, Fir Island: 8.20 -
10.15am - caught this 2 hours before high tide but there were birds
already out in the fields. Two of the Baird's were feeding with
starlings in the field immediately east of the parking lot at Browns
Slough. The other three were up at the Jensen access out in the plowed
field next to the parking lot with the black-bellied plover.
6 Baird's sandpipers
24 long-billed dowitchers
20+ least sandpipers
5 greater yellowlegs
7 lesser yellowlegs
1 mourning dove
2 bald eagles
9 yellow-headed blackbirds
300+ common merganser
3 black-bellied plover
West-90 ponds, Sammish Flats 10.45 - 12.30pm
44 dowitchers
8 least sandpipers
5 western sandpipers
5 greater yellowlegs
2 lesser yellowlegs
13 ravens
1 turkey vulture
1 short-eared owl
3 bank swallows
3 northern harriers
1 red-tailed hawk
Stuart
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Stuart MacKay, Seattle, WA
stuart at blarg.net