Subject: NO Sharp-tailed Sandpiper at the Hoquim STP
Date: Oct 1 14:33:33 2002
From: Ruth Sullivan - GODWIT at worldnet.att.net


Hello Tweets,

This morning my mother and I checked the Hoquim STP between
7:40am-10:15am,mainly to obtain additional photographs of the juvenile
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper,but we and other birders including Charlie Wright and
his father,Gina Sheridan of Spokane and others were unable relocate the bird
as of until we left the location at 10:15am during fairly foggy conditions
with improving visibility. The bird may still remain(with enough effort
checking the vegetated margins along the entire western portion of the
sewage pond)or perhaps it did migrate. We checked all the margins along the
western portion of the sewage pond,as did other birders at the location
during our visit along with checking the deciduous trees and shrubbery along
Airport Way bordering the northen edge of the sewage pond for lingering
songbird migrants. Temperatures were very cold with the added fog which
seemed to make conditions quite variable at times. A list of our highlights
noted during our visit to the Hoquim STP include the following:

12 Brown Pelicans
75+ Double-crested Cormorants
16 Green-winged Teal
1 female BLUE-WINGED TEAL
44 Northern Shovelers
8 Ring-necked Ducks
2(1 adult,1 immature)Peregrine Falcons
4 Black Turnstones
138+ Sanderlings
32 Western Sandpipers
9 Least Sandpipers
4 Long-billed Dowitchers
14 Mew Gulls(among larger numbers of California and Ring-billed Gulls)
7 Ruby-crowned Kinglets
22 Am.Pipits
1 Hutton's Vireo
1 female Yellow Warbler
27 Yellow-rumped"Myrtle"Warblers
6 Yellow-rumped"Audubon's"Warblers
2 Common Yellowthroats
9 "Sooty"Fox Sparrows
6 Lincoln's Sparrows

On our way home a single Western Scrub Jay was observed along Hwy.12 at
Satsop.


Good birding,

Ruth and Patrick Sullivan
GODWIT at worldnet.att.net