Hi tweets,

Wendy and I birded Whidbey Island on Saturday and found a flock of around 500 Black Turnstones and Surfbirds along Penn Cove with a ratio of 3 turnstones to 1 surfbird. This is the largest flock I've encountered in many years of birding Whidbey Island. Are they staging for migration? Two Sanderlings were among them. The only other shorebirds we saw were 3 Black-bellied Plovers, 3 Greater Yellowlegs and a half a dozen Killdeer at Sunlight Beach south of Bayview.

Good Birding, Alan Roedell mailto:roedell at speakeasy.net