August 17th

Highlights:

Lots of warblers along Brady Loop road: 20 Wilson's, 14 black-throated
grays, 9 yellows,
4 northern rough-winged swallows along Brady Loop road.
1 red-necked phalarope at Hoquiam Sewage Ponds.
1 olive-sided flycatcher at Cyber Lake. This bird was on the main trail
just before the boardwalk.
1 red-necked phalarope at Ocean Shores Sewage Ponds.
12 pacific golden plover at the western end of Ocean Shores game range -
feeding out on the sand near the radar deflector.
2 american golden plover - same place as the pacific's.
3 Baird's sandpipers feeding out on the spit opposite the air-traffic
radar at the Game Range.
1 black-legged kittiwake, 22 surfbirds and 1 wandering tatler on the
Point Brown jetty.
10,000 sooty shearwaters - give or take a couple of thousand feeding on
the surf opposite the Marine View Drive beach access.


The news in detail:

Brady Loop Road, 08.00 - 10.15am

1 scrub jay
2 northern harriers
9 red-tailed hawks
17 ravens
20 Wilson's warblers
14 black-throated gray warblers
11 common yellowthroats
9 yellow warblers
3 Swainson's thrushes
1 warbling vireo
3 bald eagles
41 violet-green swallows
1 cliff swallow
6 tree swallows
4 northern rough-winged swallows
1 willow flycatcher

Hoquiam Sewage Ponds 10.40-11.10am

6 northern pintail
3 green-winged teal
181 glaucous-winged gulls
253 california gulls
1 bufflehead
6 greater scaup
1 common goldeneye
2 spotted sandpipers
7 least sandpipers
1 red-necked phalarope
70 cliff swallows
1 northern rough-winged swallow
40 tree swallows
120+ barn swallows

Cyber Lake 11.20 - 12.10pm

1 olive-sided flycatcher - juvenile bird clearly showing white on side
of rump.
169 greater yellowlegs
1 western wood peewee
3 chestnut-backed chickadees
1 Swainson's thrush
1 yellow warbler
1 orange-crowned warbler
1 downy woodpecker
8+ golden-crowned kinglets

Taurus Blvd 12.30pm

40 caspian terns
30 common murres

Butter Clam St beach access, 12.45pm

86 caspian terns

Marine View Drive beach access, 1.00 - 145pm

612 black-bellied plover
6 red knot - 4 adult, 2 juveniles
235 short-billed dowitchers
750+ sanderling - all adults
236 caspian terns
80+ western sandpipers

Ocean Shores Sewage Ponds 2.15pm

1 red-necked phalarope
3 northern shovelor
18 mallard
2 long-billed dowitchers

Ocean Shores Game Range, 2.15 - 5.00pm

2 red-breasted mergansers
300+ Heerman's gulls
12 pacific golden plover
2 american golden plover
2 brown pelicans
84 california gulls
105 caspian terns
22 canada geese
1 western gull
7 red-throated loons
3 pacific loons
3 whimbrel
59 least sandpipers
3 Baird's sandpipers
4 western sandpipers
1 semi-palmated sandpiper
1 herring gull

Damon Point 5.30 - 6.45pm

5 horned larks
2 brown pelicans
10 semi-palmated plover
15 least sandpipers
3 western sandpipers
1 great blue heron
2-3 northern harriers
560 scoter spp.
1 common loon
1 ruddy turnstone

North of Marina 7.00pm - small flocks of whimbrel were leaving the
mudflats, and heading south at dusk,

75 black-bellied plover
25 whimbrel
55 short-billed dowitchers
2 marbled godwits
1 killdeer

Point Brown 7.10 - 7.45pm - the surfbirds were very excited and took off
climbing quite high before heading south.

7 brown headed cowbirds
1 black-legged kittiwake
22 surfbirds
1 wandering tatler
12 brown pelicans
10,000 +/- sooty shearwaters feeding off Marine View Drive access


Stuart
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Stuart MacKay, Seattle, WA
stuart at blarg.net
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