Hello Tweets,

Today Jim Pruske, Dave Hayden, and my mother, and I birded Pacific and Grays
Harbor Cos., starting at Midway Beach Rd. at 8:30am, where weather
conditions were quite favorable, with mostly cloudy skies, and increasing
wind, but NO rain, as we did encounter on route to this location. We walked
the beach, south of the end of Midway Beach Rd., where we attempted to
relocate the possible MONGOLIAN PLOVER, that was reported as being seen on
the 11th, but with NO luck, during our visit today until 11:15am. We
encountered a few quality species, as we walked a total of nearly 3 1/2
miles including:

1 WHITE-TAILED KITE
1 Peregrine Falcon
22 SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS(one of which was with the 28 Snowy Plovers, which
could have been mistaken for the Mongolian Plover, but the true bird could
have moved to another location in a 9 day period)
28 SNOWY PLOVERS
540 Dunlin
325 SANDERLINGS
9 WESTERN SANDPIPERS
1 THAYER'S GULL
25 HORNED LARKS
30 SNOW BUNTINGS
3 Purple Finches

At Tokeland, moderate showers persisted at times, but we were able to locate
the large shorebird flock at the Tokeland Marina at high tide, and a few
other notable species including:

54 Brant
13 WILLETS
215 MARBLED GODWITS
2 WHIMBREL
1 Black Turnstone
2 BARN SWALLOWS

Heading south along Hwy.105, east of Tokeland produced 5 TRUMPETER SWANS at
the mouth of Cedar River, as we drove by, heading for Raymond.

At 1pm we stopped by the White Ibis location near Menlo, where the bird was
immediately present upon arriving, but then flew further east of the
property further out along a row of bushes bordering the wet field it was
initially in, but also foraged after settling down. A single WESTERN SCRUB
JAY was noted in Menlo, and an AM.KESTREL, west of Menlo along Hwy.6, as was
the wintering herd of 25 Roosevelt Elk, before we departed for Brady Loop
Rd., near Montesano.

The wether conditions began to get worse upon arriving at Brady Loop Rd. at
3pm, but slowly began to improve the latter part of our visit, despite the
time of day, but we attempted for the immature RED-SHOULDERED HAWK, which we
located at 3:30pm at the west end of the "loop", and watched it on several
occasions during our visit, as we birded the entire loop, with the following
highlights:

147 TRUMPETER SWANS
18 TUNDRA SWANS
1 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK
2 AM.KESTREL
1 pair of BARN OWLS
1 WESTERN SCRUB JAY
7 BROWN-HEADED COWBIRDS(with 104 Brewer's Blackbirds, 43 Red-winged
Blackbirds, and Starlings)


Good birding,

Ruth and Patrick Sullivan
GODWIT at worldnet.att.net