Subject: [Tweeters] Birds seen at Three Crabs, near Dungeness River mouth
Date: Nov 2 15:52:26 2005
From: Bruce Moorhead - bruceb at olypen.com


I birded the Three Crabs area today with John Willits from about 10-11 a.m.; saw nothing resembling an Ivory Gull. We did however observe ~50 Calif. Gulls, ~30 Olympic Gulls, and 1 Mew Gull; 4 Canvasbacks (1 M, 3 F), and 5 Eurasian Wigeons with ~1500 American Wigeons, ~20 Pintails, 3 G-W Teals, 2 Mallards, and ~50 Western Sandpipers. Plus 2 Bald Eagles and 1 Harrier.

While scoping to the west from the west side of the Three Crabs parking lot, we were also somewhat surprised when a female deer with twin fawns suddenly appeared to the north of us along the waters' edge from the base of the old jetty, and then passed in front of us along the algae-strewn shoreline to the west. Seemed like they must have been feeding in the brackish pond area just east of restaurant, but I haven't obs. deer moving along the shoreline here before.

Bruce Moorhead
Port Angeles, WA
bruceb at olypen.com