Subject: Buff Breasted + Stilt Sandpiper
Date: Sep 9 18:09:53 2001
From: David Hayden - dtvhm at nwrain.com


Jason P., Jim Pruske, Brenda Johnson, and I birded mainly the Nisqually
Refuge today. We started at 7:15am at the plowed field next to Hartman
Rd., where we quickly found the Buff Breasted Sandpiper feeding with the
Killdeer near the outhouse building. After finding this target bird we
all went over to the Nisqually Refuge and birded until 4:00pm with some
nice highlights.

Hartman Rd.
1 juv Buff Breasted Sandpiper
2 Horned Larks
8 American Pipits
1 Virginia Rail (heard)

Nisqually Refuge
3 Green Herons
1 American Bittern
3 Turkey Vultures
1 Osprey
1 American Kestrel
2 Cooper's Hawk
1 Merlin
15 Common Terns
1 Lincoln Sparrow
1 Rufous Hummingbird
2 Scrub Jays
2 Virginia Rails (heard)
1 Townsend Warbler
1 Black Throated Gray Warbler
1 Yellow Rumped Warbler
1 Yellow Warbler
8 Orange Crowned Warblers
2 Warbling Vireos
40 Long Billed Dowitchers
2 Least Sandpipers
200+ Western Sandpipers
10 Semipalmated Plovers
1 Greater Yellowlegs
1 Lesser Yellowlegs
2 Pectoral Sandpipers (photographed by Jim)
1 STILT SANDPIPER (photographed by Jim)
3 Hooded Mergansers
good numbers of Green Winged Teal, Northern Pintails, and Northern
Shovelers


Dave Hayden
Lakewood
dtvhm at nwrain.com