Subject: Nisqually Wilson's Phalarope
Date: May 6 16:47:09 2004
From: Ryan Shaw - rtshaw80 at hotmail.com


Greetings all,

Tracey Norris and I spent a couple hours at Nisqually NWR this afternoon.
The highlight for us was a male Wilson's Phalarope in the first pond on the
left on the trail out towards McCallister Creek. Other shorebirds hanging
out with it were 20 Western Sandpipers, 3 Dunlin, 10 Least Sandpipers, 10
Greater Yellowlegs, and 2 Long-billed Dowitchers.

Lots of warblers were around, including many Yellows, Wilson's,
Black-throated Grays, and Yellow-rumped, and singing Western Tanagers,
Warbling Vireos, Pacific-slope Flycatchers and Swainson's Thrushes are also
recent arrivals.

Cheers and Good Birding

Ryan Shaw
Tacoma
rtshaw80 at hotmail.com

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