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April 24, 6:49 PM ? John O?Connell - (360) 299-4375. Today, at approximately
1:00 PM, in Monroe, Vince Gillis and I found a single SAGE THRASHER. The
bird is located just off Freelands Boulevard SE which is just off highway 2
in Monroe. South three tenths of a mile to Lake Tyee. Park and it?s the
track paralleling the western bank itself, then turning north following the
track to the area near the Smith Brothers feedlot. The bird was on the wire
fencing and on the ground and we looked at the bird for approximately twenty
minutes. Excellent views. Thanks.

April 26, 10:15 PM ? Hi, Tom Aversa here reporting on a couple of days
birding down on the outer coast, the 24th and 25th. Good numbers of shore
birds on the 24th. There were about 650 MARBLED GODWITS at Bill?s Spit in
Ocean Shores. Also at Ocean Shores on the jetty were three ROCK SANDPIPERS.
Apparently these represented the two common sub-species that winter here. If
they are still around they present some good photo ops. A couple looked like
the typical bird and one like the (term unclear) sub-species which is
darker. I don?t know if they hung around or not, but they may be out there.
They were all the way out on the end of the jetty, unfortunately. Also on
the 24th there was some decent land bird movement., especially notable on
Burroughs Road on the Humptulips River. An early WARBLING VIREO was in that
area. Also some of the more standard migrants: WILSONS, PACIFIC SLOPE,
BLACK-THROATED GRAY. A tight flock of about a dozen TOWNSEND?S WARBLERS
ALONG there also. Today really big numbers of shorebirds on Bottle Beach at
high tide, including about twenty KNOTS and at North Cove, at the new jetty,
there was quite a large group of BLACK TURNSTONES, at least 250 and about 35
SURFBIRDS with them. About 500 BONAPARTE?S there also with eight
BLACK-LEGGED KITIWAKES, first year birds on the beach. That?s about it. Good
luck if you are going down that way. The ROCK SANDPIPERS were all in
breeding plumage.