Mark,

How about Surfbirds?

Larry Schwitters
Issaquah
On Tuesday, August 16, 2005, at 04:20 PM, Mark Vernon wrote:

> Today I visited Discovery Park and had some great sitings.
> I saw a flock of 9 shorebirds that I am unfamiliar with. They were
> very close to me as I watched them from the rocks at the West Point
> lighthouse. They were robin sized, mostly solid gray, with white
> bellies. The beaks were short, not sure about the color. Their legs
> were definately yellow. Their tails were short and a bit black. They
> did not bob. Mostly they seemed not to be jumpy, but a walker flushed
> them up and they flew around a bit and then returned. The most
> striking thing was their upper wing patterns as they flew. They showed
> a lot of black with a white band on the rump of the tail, and arced
> white bands on the wings, running the length of the wings. I wish I
> had brought a camera! Can anybody give me suggestions?
> ?
> I also saw 2 Semipalmated Plovers, 1 Killdeer, 17 Sanderlings and 6
> Least Sandpipers. Their was still a small prescence of Rhinoceros
> Auklets.
> ?
> I stumbled into a Barred Owl being mobbed by Robins, Steller's Jays, a
> Downy Woodpecker and an enraged Anna's Hummingbird. I have read about
> Barred Owls at Discovery Park but this is my very first siting of one.
> I had an interesting day.
> ?
> -Mark Vernon
> Renton, WA
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