Numbers at Bowerman Basin are starting to pick up. About 3,000 today mostly
Western Sandpipers.

The word from Ocean Shores is:

"SHOREBIRDS ARE BACK !

I know you have people telling you about the numbers of shorebirds, but
since I live right here overlooking Bill's Spit in Ocean Shores, here's the
latest from here:

THEY ARE BACK. An hour ago, I glanced out my window as I do every hour I'm
home, and there were more masses of shorebirds in the air than any I've
seen since we moved here. They included the lovely cinnamon Marbled
Godwits, BB Plovers, Dunlins, Dowitchers all circling in separate or mixed
flocks. 1000s landed on the narrow strip of Bill's Spit still here near
high tide, others are crowding every direction straight E from me, SW and
NW past Bill's Spit, and in the air around the Harbor. Friends down the bay
on Capt Cook (one of those explorer Capts, the block past Oyster Ct) say
they are on their mudflats as well.

Kathleen Wolgemuth"

Bruce Fischer
Aberdeen, WA
stump at techline.com