Subject: [Tweeters] Mountain Plover - No show
Date: Feb 28 08:52:03 2005
From: Rod at Home - roderickgilbert at comcast.net


I went with my wife yesterday to look for the Mountain Plover (2/27) at Oysterville. We spent a couple of hours looking north and south of the marked site with no luck. There were two other birders there also looking, one who looked like he was at the tip of Leadbetter Point, so he might have relocated the Plover that far north. There were thousands of Dunlin, fewer Sanderlings, and a hand full of Black-Bellied Plovers. A Peregrine Falcon occasionally harassed the huge flocks of shorebirds creating spectacular aerial displays as the shorebirds scattered in unison. About two miles south of South Bend there was either a juvenile or female light phase Rough-Legged Hawk.

Rod Gilbert
Olympia, WA

roderickgilbert AT comcast.net