At Blaine, 8:30 am to 10 am, August 28

Great Blue Heron, Canada Goose, Mallard, Pintail, Shoveller, American Wigeon, Osprey, Glaucous-winged Gull, Ring-billed Gull, Caspian Tern, Crow
Black-bellied Plover 200
Pacific Golden Plover 1
Killdeer 30
Greater yellowlegs 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 1
Red Knot 2, one in very faded breeding plumage
Western Sandpiper 700
Sanderling 3
Dowitcher sp. 3
BAR-TAILED GODWIT 1. This is an interesting bird. Very strong white supercilium, white undertail coverts, a white tail with gray bars. However, the bird has a white rump - not consistent with the race to be expected in our region. I watched the bird for over half an hour. For 95% of this time it stood quietly with its bill under its wing. Unfortunately I never got a view of its underwing pattern. The bird was observed north of Marine Drive offshore from picnic shelter 2.

Other plumage details: top of the head, dark gray; back, gray with some interrupted lines of with spots; breast and belly, rusty with some gray spots; bill, upturned and bicolored with pink base and gray outer half; legs, gray; greater secondary coverts, a lighter gray than the back and unspotted, noticeably contrasting with the back;

Jim Duemmel
Bellingham, WA
mailto:j.duemmel at worldnet.att.net
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