Hello, tweeters.

Netta Smith and I spent a few hours on Ediz Hook, Port Angeles,
Clallam County, at midday, with howling winds from the east
preventing digiscoping, but we parked the car at the seed pile near
the entrance to the coast guard part of the spit and watched mostly
Sanderlings (30+) and House Sparrows (100+) feeding there. A few
Black Turnstones and Dunlins and a male Brown-headed Cowbird
completed the crowd. It's a kick to see a dense jostling mass of
Sanderlings and House Sparrows, neither one of them moving out of the
way for the other. The House Sparrows were the most skittish birds
there, flying up under the least provocation and startling the other
birds into flight. The wind was so strong that when a bird wished to
move backwards it just jumped into the air and hovered and was pushed
backwards a few feet.

Right off the spit there were four RED PHALAROPES, just to add that
record to the apparently tremendous numbers around. It's too bad that
when we see Red Phalaropes it usually means they're in trouble.