The Lower Columbia Birders went for their first of the
month walk at Ft Stevens this morning.

There were 50 WHIMBREL at Wireless Rd and 48 MARBLED
GODWITS on Youngs Bay on the way out.

Notable species on the Battery Russell bike path included
an OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER, many PACIFIC SLOPE FLYCATCHERS,
a MACGILLIVRAY'S WARBLER and many ORANGE-CROWNS.

>From the veiwing platform at parking lots C, flocks of
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE were going by in groups of 50-200.
An adult PARASITIC JAEGER, 8 or so BONAPARTE'S GULLS and
at least 2 ARCTIC TERNS were also seen.

High tide on the South Jetty river beach produced large
groups of resting calidrids. The shorebird list from
all sites today:
Semipalmated Plover
Black-Bellied Plover
Black Turnstone
Marbled Godwit
Whimbrel
Long-billed Dowitcher
Short-billed Dowitcher
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Sanderling
Dunlin
Red-necked Phalarope

Total day list 73 species

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