Subject: Lewis's Woodpecker at Brady Loop
Date: Sep 27 23:25:11 2001
From: Jason Paulios - jpaulios at hotmail.com


Hey all, just got back from a day-trip and ended it with a Lewis's
Woodpecker on Foster Rd of the Brady Loop area. It was halfway down the
road on the left-hand side as you travel away from the interstate. There
are a number of dead snags here where it seen and again relocated 15 minutes
later (after I birded the Loop road).

Other trip highlights:

Tokeland Marina 10:00-10:30 high tide.
Bar-Tailed Godwit (still there with the Marbleds on the dock)
Marbled Godwits
12 Willets
2 Whimbrels (all the above birds were on the dock)
2 White-crowned Sparrows
300/tons Double-Cr. Corms

Beach across from N. Cove Pioneer Cemetary (outside Tokeland)10:45-11
Heerman's Gulls
Western Gulls
Ring-Billed Gulls
1 Peregrine Falcon
2 Fox Sparrows

Midway Beach 11:15-12:00
6 Horned Larks
1 Pectoral Sandpiper
5 Sooty Shearwaters

Bottle Beach 12:45-1:20
1 Great Egret
Am. Widgeon
N. Pintails
N. Shovelers
G/Wing Teal
75 (about) Marbled Godwits
Black Bel/ Plovers
Western Sandpipers
40 Least Sandpipers
1 N. Harrier

Brady Loop Rd. 2:10-3:00
3 Turkey Vultures
2 Red-Tailed Hawks
1 Peregrine Falcon
1 American Kestrel
1 LEWIS'S WOODPECKER
1 Western Meadowlark

Jason Paulios
Olympia, WA

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