Tweeters,

The SNOW BUNTING was an easy find this morning (11/28/03). I watched the
bird from 10:00 to 10:30 at very close range. It was near the
transmission tower several hundred yards west of the Coast Guard gate.
It was would forage on the bay side of the spit and when it would flush,
it would head to the ocean side of the spit. I put some bird seed on the
ground in hopes that it would keep the bird close to the same spot.

Good birding,

Russell



Robert Norton wrote:

>Tweets,
> Judy Mullally found a SNOW BUNTING on Ediz Hook yesterday and I went out
>in the afternoon with a visiting friend and we also saw it. Interestingly it
>was in the same area that Russell Rogers had found a LAPLAND LONGSPUR some
>weeks ago. Both Snow Buntings and Lapland Longspurs are seen much less
>frequently on the North Olympic since most of Dungeness Spit was closed to
>public access.
> The exact area lies from west of the restrooms (near the boat launch
>area) to the small brown building on the harbor side with a number of
>antennas on it. The BUNTING was on both the harbor side and the Strait side
>and was the only passerine seen on that stretch.
> The numbers of birds (including shorebirds) in Port Angeles Harbor has
>been down for the last few years but a careful search can turn up most. No
>ROCK SANDPIPERS can be found nor were any reported last year. They are
>probably around but the log raft favored by the shorebirds this year is so
>far out in the harbor that it would be hard to sure of a ROCK even at 60X.
>Bob Norton
>Joyce (near Port Angeles), WA
>norton36 at olypen.com
>
>
>

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