Dear tweeters,

Today, Sat. Nov. 16th we drove out to the south jetty
at Fort Stevens State Park. There were 3 dead
shorebirds on the road. I couldn't tell what they were
other than they were mostly white with a little black
and about the size of a medium size sandpiper or
plover. We also saw a large flock of shorebirds
huddled together on the sand beach as you look out
from the south jetty bird observation blind. We didn't
have binoculars so couldn't really get a good look at
them and don't have much experience birding here. ANy
ideas as to what the flocks or dead birds could have
been. I know this is very scant information. I'm
wondering if the dead birds might have gotten blown
off course and killed somehow. It seemed very odd that
3 of them would have been hit by cars. It's not that
busy or fast a road but there were some strong gusts
today.

Hope Stanton
Nehalem, OR

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Hope Stanton
wildnatives at yahoo.com

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