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From: Wendy & Alan Roedell [mailto:wroedell at mindspring.com]
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 7:28 AM
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Cc: roedell at speakeasy.net
Subject: Black Turnstones and Surfbirds



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

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