Dear Tweeters,

Thanks to Marv Breece's encouraging words, I was able
to find the Pacific Golden Plover on Sunday, on the
Samish Flats. The bird was in a field just SW of the
T-90 junction.

Viewing conditions were dreadful. After a couple of
hours of looking at birds in pelting rain and blustery
wind, I finally found a place where I could place the
minivan as a windbreak. Then, after I had waited in
that spot by the T-90 for forty minutes or so, the
plovers started walking toward me. A couple of
Killdeer and a thousand Dunlin or so were with close
to a hundred Black-bellied Plover. The Golden Plover
eventually walked right up to within fifty meters of
me. One disadvantage of my placement was that the bird
kept facing into the wind, so it was very hard to
study the wingtips.

At March's Point, fifteen or more Black Turnstones
were in a new spot. They were flying from a spit in
Fidalgo Bay toward the new trail, the one that crosses
the bay on a rocky causeway. Perhaps that causeway
trail would be a good place to view these birds, which
often stay frustratingly far away from March's Point.
It might even produce a Surfbird some day. Also in
Fidalgo Bay were hundreds of Common Goldeneyes and
about a hundred Greater Scaup.


Yours truly,

Gary Bletsch

near Lyman (Skagit County), Washington

garybletsch at yahoo.com


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