Hello Stuart and tweeters,
Yes we believe that you had 800 Red-necked Phalarope.We had this species in
every smal ponds and lakes in easten Wasington a total of 304,a second high
count was the Bairds with a total of 181 an unbelievable numbers here on the
westside.
The way you write you birds up,show the experienced birder in you, no
MAYBES.

Ruth Sullivan
Tacoma
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stuart MacKay" <stuart at blarg.net>
To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 9:42 PM
Subject: Whidbey Island & Skagit 8/25


> Awesome day on Whidbey Island and around the Skagit Flats: 107 species.
> The more interesting birds included:
>
> Mukilteo:
>
> 270 Heerman's gulls flying south
>
> Useless Bay:
>
> 800+ red-necked phalaropes - yes 800 and yes I counted them twice to
> make sure.
> 1 Baird's sandpiper
> 1 whimbrel
> 1 juv. red knot
> 5 western tanagers
> 1 pacific-slope flycatcher
> 1 yellow-rumped warbler
> 2 ospreys
> 15 lesser yellowlegs
> 6 greater yellowlegs
> 140 caspian terns
> 200+ Bonaparte's gulls
> 100+ California gulls
> 15 common loons
> 1 Cooper's hawk
> 1 sharp-shinned hawk
>
> South Whidbey State Park:
>
> 21 red crossbills
> lots of brown creepers
> lots of Swainson's thrushes
>
> Crockett Lake:
>
> 109 western sandpipers
> 14 semi-palmated plovers
> 12 least sandpipers
> 1 peregrine - hence the lack of shorebirds
>
> Penn Cove:
>
> 12 black turnstones
> 1 surfbird
> 4 white-winged scoter
> 250 surf scoter
>
>
> Hastie Lake Road Boat Launch:
>
> 2 horned grebes
> 20+ red-necked grebes
> 4 pacific loons
> 300+ Heerman's gulls
>
> Swantown Lake:
>
> 30 Heerman's gulls
> 74 western sandpipers
> 3 northern harriers
> 17 sanderling
> 8 northern pintail
>
> Swinhomish Channel - north side:
>
> 200+ caspian terns
>
> Skagit City Pond
>
> 10 blue-winged teal
> 1 spotted sandpiper
> 4 long-billed dowitchers
> 2 least sandpipers
>
> Fir Island - Jensen access & Fir Island Farm Wildlife Area
>
> 1200 western sandpipers
> 70 black-bellied plover
> 70+ american wigeon
> 1 western meadowlark
> 1 mourning dove
> 3 yellow-headed blackbirds
> 1 common raven
> 2 merlins
> 1 short-billed dowitcher
> 4 pectoral sandpipers
>
> Stanwood Sewage Ponds
>
> 27 red-necked phalaropes
>
> Phew,
>
> Stuart
> --
> Stuart MacKay, Seattle, WA
> stuart at blarg.net
>
>