Just returned from birding Blaine from 9am-4pm Sept. 1. The tide was low
and still going out when we arrived and found Marv Breece already there.
Our main target bird was the Snowy Egret. Around 9:30am we found it south
of the marina out on the mud flats viewed from south of town looking down on
it. At 4pm it had returned to the boat launch area even though there were
many boaters pulling their boats out of the water.

Here is a list of what I found at Blaine Marine Park:

1 Cooper's Hawk
550+ Black-bellied Plovers (most that I have seen together)
3 American Golden-Plovers
1 Semipalmated Plover
15 Greater Yellowlegs
2 Lesser Yellowlegs
1 Solitary Sandpiper
1 Willet (4pm it was flying west from the restrooms)
1 Marbled Godwit
300 Western Sandpipers
5 Least Sandpipers
2 Stilt Sandpipers (found by themselves at low tide out from public
restrooms)
1 Short-billed Dowitcher
2 Long-billed Dowitcher

Semiahmoo (west of)

100 Common Terns feeding in rip tide

Ken Knittle, Monroe
washingtonbirder at hotmail.com

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