Jim Pruske and I birded Luhr Beach and the refuge today. Here are some
of our sightings.

Luhr Beach
1 Spotted Sandpiper
2 Common Loons
1 Earred Grebe
7 Black Bellied Plovers mixed in with 1000+ peeps
16 Purple Martins
Several White Winged Scoters mixed with Surf Scoters

Yellow Warbler singing at the Nisqually Center

2 Wood Ducks at the Nisqually Center

Warbling Vireo at the Nisqually River trail.

1 light colored Solitary Sandpiper in the back pond within the boardwalk

Good numbers of Least Sandpiper and Western Sandpiper in the front
Willow Ponds.

4 Greater White Fronted Geese in the ponds by the twin barns

1 American Bittern along the Center Trail

1 Virginia Rail along the Center Trail

In the pond at the corner of the Center Trail and McAllister Creek
8 Cinnamon Teal
1 Blue Winged Teal
1 Blue Winged X Cinnamon Teal Hybred (Blue Winged head on Cinnamon body)

2 Sora at the pond in the NW corner

5 Greater Yellowlegs at the NW corner of the refuge

1 Red Throated Loon at the reach where the gulls roost

Dave Hayden
Lakewood WA
dtvhm at nwrain.com