Tweets and Rod,
I was the birder almost at the tip. I did go almost to the tip, kept hoping
that maybe the plover was just up ahead. Many more shorebird flocks and 2
snowy plovers were found and a second peregrine falcon, but no sight of the
Mountain Plover. I also had walked from the oysterville access and looked
along the beach in the couple of miles there with no luck.
Best birding.

Scott Downes
downess at charter.net
Yakima WA

Subject: Mountain Plover - No show
From: "Rod at Home" <roderickgilbert AT comcast.net>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 08:52:03 -0800

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