Subject: 25th&26th Ocean Shores
Date: Oct 27 19:33:59 2003
From: Ruth Sullivan - godwit at worldnet.att.net


Hello tweeters.
Sorry it took me that long to write my sightings up for Saturday 7 Sunday.I
did not write every bird up what I saw,only the high lights.It is not as I
going birding with my son Patrick.it takes me more time to ID and also I
bird more relaxed.Birding on Saturday was pretty slow,but I started out late
and also I visit a friend when we birded partly on Saturday with Kathleen
Wohlgemuth who can look from her house direct to Bills Spit.She writes for
the Accent the Ocean Shores Observer and for Oregon Magazine.
I started in Satsop on Saturday where all the fields are flooded.The only
birds I thousands of Gulls bathing in all that deep water and Crows.The same
goes for Brady-loop road where there was more Gulls than I ever saw
there.There was no Ducks even ,maybe because there hunting now.
On Boweman the tide was so high already at noon so there was the usual
Ducks.The only birds noticed was 4 Boneparte gulls and the Redhead and one
Eared Grebe.
Ocean Shores Sewage Ponds produced 15 Red Phalaropes looking all well,50 +
Long-billed Dowitchers .The weather was so nice but where was the birds?From
there we went to the Game range where usual on the tower sits the Adult male
Peregrine,but not today.This are the birds we saw here:
White -winged Scoter
Black Scoter
Surf Scoter Red-throated Loons
Common Loons
50 Black-bellied Plovers
800 + Dunlin's
many Killdeer
6 Least Sandpiper
The afternoon going to the Jetty produced OF as we was looking direct in to
the Sun.

Sunday I started at the Water Tower where I had 3 Grebes
Western Grebe
Horned Grebe
Eared Grebe
There was still the same amount of Red Phalaropes 15 + 3 Black Turnstones
But only 20 Long-billed Dowitchers
On the Game Range close to the jetty there where 3 winter adult Herring
Gulls.
Last I went to Damon Point walking out even in front every think was full of
water,but coming to the big pond You could not walk at all it was flooded
with out you start from the front and walk on the out side.But as I
approached I saw one Shorebird what turned out the Sharp-tailed Sandpiper in
bright juvenile plumage.So all my searching for two days was all worth the
effort.I picked up the Photos and there are looking pretty good. The bird
was close to the edge but in water ,it looked like a extended lake on Damon
Point.The last birds where about two thousand Dunlin on the point who got
scared of by a marsh Hawk.The Sharp-tailed Sandpiper was flying across the
water where on to the other side where I left the bird.
For myself I had two great days of birding.
Cheers Ruth Sullivan