Subject: Elma to Tokeland birding
Date: Feb 18 21:46:52 2004
From: Tim O'Brien - kertim7179 at centurytel.net


Hi Tweets, I made a trip out to the coast today in preparation for a Grays
Harbor Audubon field trip I'll be leading in two weeks. My main highlight
of the day was at Midway Beach (Pacific co.) where I had a nice view of 13
Snowy Plovers, which is a new life bird for me. I've been to Midway a few
times, but this is the first time I found the plovers. They were located
just across the stream of water that washed out the road bed at the beach
access. Also, in the same general area was a huge flock of Dunlin with a
few Sanderlings and Western Sandpipers running around too. I didn't see any
falcons in the area at all while I was there.

I made a stop at Bottle Beach also where I had one Yellow-rumped Warbler
(Myrtle) in the trees at the parking area. I hit Bottle Beach right at high
tide so there was very little to look at on the beach. When I made it back
to the car, I was pleasantly surprised by a flock of about 10 Bushtit in the
parking area. Ocosta Third Street had the usual species with three Greater
Yellowlegs milling about the ponds there.

Good birding,

Tim O'Brien
Elma, WA
mailto: kertim719 at centurytel.net