Hello Tweets,

Today my mother and I birded the Nisqually NWR in northern Thurston Co. from
3:15pm-6:55pm, as we walked the entire loop trail, as we mainly searched for
the STILT SANDPIPER that was noted yesterday, but were unable to relocate it
upon fairy extensive searching along McAllister Creek and the Nisqually
Delta. We did however have fairly good numbers of "peeps" as they foraged
along the shoreline west of the observation tower at incoming tide. On our
way back in from the Nisqually Loop trail, we ran into Dave Hayden at
6:50pm, where we observed a SOLITARY SANDPIPER, originally found by Dave a
few minutes earlier. On our way home we located the BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER
with Dave, along Hartman Rd. at 7:15pm, where it again was foraging loosely
with a flock of Killdeer. A list of our notable highlights observed at
Nisqually NWR follows:

6 Common Loons
17 Western Grebes
26 Horned Grebes
47 Green-winged Teal
18 Northern Pintail
4 Northern Shovelers
72 Am.Wigeon
8 Surf Scoters
11 White-winged Scoters
2 Hooded Mergansers
1 immature Cooper's Hawk
3 Virginia Rails
1 Sora
8 Sanderlings
1 juvenile SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER
480+ Western Sandpipers
32 Least Sandpipers
5 Pectoral Sandpipers
6 Mew Gulls
17 Caspian Terns
1 Mourning Dove
1 Great Horned Owl
1 Western Scrub Jay
1 Hutton's Vireo
2 Orange-crowned warblers
1 Yellow Warbler
1 Yellow-rumpred Warbler
1 MacGillivray's Warbler
1 Western Tanager
1 Lincoln's Sparrow
16 Purple Finches
13 Evening Grosbeaks(heard and seen along the west side of McAllister Creek
from the main loop trail)

Good birding,

Ruth and Patrick Sullivan
GODWIT at worldnet.att.net