I checked out the game range from the Tonquin end with 3 other birders from 3-5 and found it very quiet - not many birds active, lots of western sandpipers sitting motionless with heads under their wings. We did pick up a single American golden-plover and eventually a couple of buff-breasted sandpipers flew in with some westerns. We dipped on the ruff. John said he'd seen the Tennesse warbler in the trees near Hoquiam STP this morning.

Louise Rutter
Kirkland
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Michael Hobbs" <birdmarymoor at verizon.net>
> Contrarywise, Wilson Cady and I also birded the game range from about 9:00 -
> 1:00. We walked in from the STP, which turned out to have been a mistake.
> After walking for hours and seeing nothing of note except for a dozen Wilson's
> Snipe, Mr. Cady found a flock of 4-6 Pacific Golden-Plover with at least 4
> Buff-breasted Sandpiper and a juvenile Ruff, due south of the bowling pin thing
> at the end of Tonquin Ave. We'd have done much better entering the game range
> from Tonquin. As we finally made our way back to the STP, having met up with
> Ryam Merrell and several other birders, a juvenile Ruff was located at the north
> end of the lagoon just east of the STP. Could well have been the same Ruff.
> Note that this is a different Ruff than the one photographed by Charlie Wright.
>
> == Michael Hobbs
> == Kirkland, WA
> == http://www.marymoor.org/birding.htm
> == birdmarymoor at verizon.net
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tim O'Brien
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 10:34 PM
> Subject: [Tweeters] Ocean Shores today - No RUFF (Grays Harbor Co.)
>
>
> Today, I birded the game range at Ocean Shores for about 4 hours. I covered
> the whole salicornia marsh area and kept an eye on the water closer to the
> beach. I did not see any Buff-Breasted Sandpipers, golden plovers, or a Ruff
> today. There were six Baird's Sandpipers, one Short-billed Dowitcher, a couple
> Greater Yellowlegs, and lots of Least and Western Sandpipers. Some of the
> Westerns are starting to go into basic plumage. Also, 2 Purple Martins flew
> over the game range for a few minutes. American Pipits seemed to be all over
> the place as well.
>
> In the water near the end of the jetty rocks, there were 3 Harlequin Ducks
> present. The Ocean Shores STP had the usual shovelers and Heermann's Gulls
> present with a surprise Black-legged Kittiwake bathing with the gulls. I later
> saw the same bird resting on the jetty just west of the STP.
>
> Tim O'Brien
> Elma, WA
> mailto: kertim7179 at yahoo.com
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