Tweeters,

Keith Brady and I made our usual trip to Luhr Beach to see if anything
new had turned up. As Keith was relocating the LONG-BILLED CURLEW I
noticed that there were 3 distant AMERICAN AVOCETS near the mouth of the
Nisqually River. If an observer was looking from the tower on the north
end of the Nisqually refuge dike, the birds would have been straight
north out in that inlet. The tide was going out but it was still fairly
high. An hour or so later the birds were much harder to find as the
channels are deeper when the water recedes. Lonnie Somer arrived later
and Keith was able to refind the birds in the same area opposite the
mouth of the Nisqually.

Other interesting and distant birds were:
200? Common Merganser
2 Sharp-shinned Hawk (seems early for this area?)
4 Spotted Sandpiper
150 or so Bonaparte's Gull
5 COMMON TERN
Rhino Auklet
Pigeon Guillemot
Purple Martin (most seemed to have fledged in the last two days)
1 Pine Siskin (haven't seen or heard one in months, unlike last Summer)

Jason Paulios
JPaulios at earthlink.net
Olympia, WA