Tweets,

Today was an abbreviated walk at Nisqually...I'm off to the Shorebird
Festival and need to get my trailer down to Ocean City State Park this afternoon.
Only walked to McAllister Creek and back and around the boardwalk. Still had a
pretty good day.

There were lots of peeps in all the right areas including DUNLIN, WESTERN
SANDPIPERS, LEAST SANDPIPERS, GREATER YELLOWLEGS and WILSON'S SNIPE. We also saw
a SORA and an AMERICAN BITTERN on the pond on the right on the way out to
McAllister Creek by the first clump of willows after the parking lot. All three
teal were present, but no NORTHERN PINTAIL or BUFFLEHEAD were seen. We did see
our first WILSON'S WARBLER in the willows on the way to the Twin Barns.

Raptors numbers were again low with only a BALD EAGLE at the nest tree and a
female NORTHERN HARRIER being seen.

Still lots of COMMON YELLOWTHROAT and YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS, but a lot less
vocal now. We did see three families of CANADA GEESE with goslings.

All told, four of us saw 45 species with the SORA and WILSON'S WARBLER being
new for the year for a year total of 91 species. No mammals were noted today.

See you at the Shorebird Festival in Hoquiam.


Phil Kelley
Lacey, WA
360-459-1499
scrbjay at aol.com

"We were few and they were plenty. Now we are plenty and they
are few."
Confucius