Greetings All,

Tracey Norris and myself headed west to do a bit of birding in Gray's Harbor
and Pacific Counties before heading back to take care of some afternoon
obligations.

We started at K Street without any Pink-footed Geese. There was a gentleman
there from Kelowna who has been in the area since tuesday and hasnot seen
the Geese in any of his many trips around the areas where the PFGO's hang
out...So they may well be gone.

We had 4 Barn Swallows sitting on the ground taking shelter from the wind at
the Hoquiam Sewage Ponds at the main gate entrance to the pond office.

A Peregrine Falcon sat on the wooden rail platform over the lagoons making
all the ducks very wary.

Bottle Beach had many thousand Dunlin at high tide, includeing about 15
Western Sandpipers.

Other interesting things in the area included a few Rock Sandpipers at the
south base of the Westport Jetty with several dozen Black Turnstones and
Surfbirds.

At Midway beach was a Peregrine Falcon taking a bath in one of the ponds to
the north of the road, and the Gyrfalcon was sitting on a stump to the south
of the road.

Usual Marbled Godwits, Willets, Long-billed Dowitchers and Curlews in and
around Tokeland.

Cheers and Good Birding

Ryan Shaw
Tacoma WA
rtshaw80 at hotmail.com

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