Subject: Census Count: Kennedy Creek Estuary
Date: Jul 27 18:56:13 2003
From: Douglas Canning - dcanning at nisquallyestuary.org


This afternoon I went to Kennedy Creek Estuary thinking I might see a
good shorebird show. No such luck. But the Bonaparte's Gulls were
amusing for their phalarope-like behavior on the water.

This report was mailed for Doug Canning by http://birdnotes.net

Date: July 27, 2003
Location: Kennedy Creek Estuary, Mason County, Washington

Here between 1530 and 1640 while the tide was rising from 7.4 feet to
11.2 feet as predicted for the Burns Point gage.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Killdeer 9
Greater Yellowlegs 2
Western Sandpiper 12
Bonaparte's Gull 100 [1]
Ring-billed Gull 250
Caspian Tern 7 [2]
American Crow 45

Footnotes:

[1] About 10% were already in non-breeding plumage and another 10%
transitional.
[2] One juvenile; others adults.

Total number of species seen: 7


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Douglas Canning
Olympia, Washington
dcanning at nisquallyestuary.org
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