Subject: [Tweeters] Leadbetter Point; 17 May 2005
Date: May 18 12:23:22 2005
From: Charlie Wright - c.wright7 at comcast.net


Fred Boesche and I birded the Leadbetter Point area yesterday, where we had
large numbers of passerines and a few seabirds but little success with
shorebirds. We walked out the blue trail, walked the beach for about 2
miles, and then returned on the yellow trail. Both trails were extensively
flooded and knee-high boots were required to pass.

Tuesday, 17 May 2005: Pacific County.
Mostly cloudy; variable wind 5-20mph; showers.

LEADBETTER POINT (9:30AM-4:45PM):
Wood Duck (5)
Ring-necked Duck (2)
Greater Scaup (15)
Red-breasted Merganser (6)
Ring-necked Pheasant (5)
Western Grebe (8)
Sooty Shearwater (350)
Brandt's Cormorant (8)
Turkey Vulture (12)
Osprey (3)
Peregrine Falcon (1): frosty, possibly tundrius, adult female.
Black-bellied Plover (25)-Willapa.
Wandering Tattler (1)-flew over while calling.
Whimbrel (3)
Ruddy Turnstone (1)
Red Knot (12)
Sanderling (20)
Western Sandpiper (2)
Short-billed Dowitcher (5)
Parasitic Jaeger (28)-chasing terns.
Mew Gull (9)
Caspian Tern (10)
Common Tern (200)
Marbled Murrelet (2)
Band-tailed Pigeon (20)
Vaux's Swift (1): nesting in historic Oysterville, entering chimney with
stuffed mouth-- nesting material?
Anna's Hummingbird (6)-Oysterville.
Rufous Hummingbird (25)
Olive-sided Flycatcher (1)
Western Wood-Pewee (3)
Cassin's Vireo (1)-locally rare.
Warbling Vireo (10)
House Wren (1)-locally rare.
Swainson's Thrush (20)
Cedar Waxwing (25)
Orange-crowned Warbler (120)
Yellow Warbler (2)
Black-throated Gray Warbler (22)
Common Yellowthroat (80)
Wilson's Warbler (25)
Western Tanager (7)
Black-headed Grosbeak (10)
Red Crossbill (50)

Charlie Wright
Bonney Lake, Washington