Hi Tweets,

We spent the weekend on the outer coast (wish we had been here in the basin
for the migrants that appeared over the weekend). Most of the usual suspects
were viewed over the weekend and have been posted already by a multitude of
birders. We did have a few unusual findings.

Saturday we found a Black-legged Kittiwake at the Ocean Shores STP. I would
think this is an unusual location for such a bird. We took some reasonable
photos of the bird and it then flew off into the afternoon sun over the bay.

Sunday we searched for the Magnolia and Tennessee at Paulson Road but did
not find either. However it was nice to see such a large group of birds that
we do not often see on the dry, hot eastern side. Our best bird of the
weekend came at Bottle Beach where we gave up on the incoming tide (almost
no shorebirds) and located a GRASSHOPPER SPARROW near the creek crossing
bridge. We did not realize how good a find this was until we arrived home
today.

The other fabulous sight was a southbound migration of dragonflies at
Tokeland Sunday that numbered over 20,000 and was still going strong when I
left.

Cheers

Doug Schonewald
Moses Lake, WA
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