Subject: [Tweeters] re: Red-eyed Vireos and Red Knots
Date: May 22 23:51:20 2006
From: bboek at olympus.net - bboek at olympus.net


Tweets,

At least one Red-eyed Vireo is also back along the Dungeness River at
RR Bridge Park, about one mile west of Sequim, singing in the
cottonwoods and alders. It was first singing last Thursday, 5/18.

Also, today (5/22), while enjoying a trip with my wife to Ocean Shores
without our children, there was a good number of shorebirds roosting
and feeding on the outer beach, between the Holiday Inn Express motel
and Pacific Blvd. Among the BB Plovers, Dunlin, Sanderlings, W
Sandpipers, Semipalmated Plovers, and dowitchers were 126 Red Knots,
all in breeding finery. The knots seemed most interested in picking
along the wrack lines of crab shells (mostly molts but also some stinky
carcasses) and Vellella deposited by the overnight high tide. There
was also a nice first-year Glaucous Gull hanging around the jetty
parking lot at the south end.

Bob Boekelheide
Sequim