Hey tweets, My husband John and I went on a date to Bottle Beach and
Westport yesterday. He went for the surfing; I went for the birds.
Conditions were challenging, as others have reported: lots of liquid
sunshine, and high winds at times, too. Unfortunately for John, the surf
was nonexistent. I mean, if you were an ant, you would have had trouble
catching a wave, and John is 6'3", far from ant-size. We did have better
luck with birds. Highlights include:
Bottle Beach:
5 black-legged kittiwakes (!), hovering and diving over the water
numerous black-bellied plovers (100 plus)
semi-palmated plovers (50 plus)
9 marbled godwits
3 dowitchers (didn't call so couldn't tell what kind)
sanderlings (hundreds)
least sandpipers (just a few)
western sandpipers
1 peregrine falcon
common yellowthroat (at least 10)
marsh wren (!; at least one, and I think maybe 3)
1 turkey vulture (flying over road)

Westport:
2 pigeon guillemots, one in breeding plumage (more or less) and one not
1 common tern flying over the marina
5 Heerman's gulls

That little county park near Satsop (the one near the osprey nest)
1 western grebe (!) in the pond, along with 4 pied-billed grebes

We also drove up Rock Candy Mountain (thanks to perfectly marvelous direx
from fellow tweets). But all we saw there were juncos and yahoos, along
with some marvelous views of clouds of mist rolling up the hillsides
through the fir trees. I have never seen anything so beautiful. - Connie,
Seattle

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