Subject: [Tweeters] 9/22 coastal birds
Date: Sep 23 09:05:33 2007
From: Paul Hicks - phicks at accessgrace.org


Tweets,
Saturday John Meyers (new to birding) and I birded the coast: Tokeland,
Midway Beach, Bottle Beach, Ocean Shores/Pt. Brown jetty, Oyhut Game Range.
Birds of note:
- Long-billed Curlew - ~10 - Graveyard Spit, Tokeland (high tide)
- Marbled Godwit - scads - Tokeland marina
- Snowy Plover - 7 - Midway Beach, less than 1/4 mi N from access rd but out
toward the shore resting in the washed-up debris, with 4 Sanderling
- Pectoral Sndpr - 2 - Midway Beach, 1/4 mi N from access rd in moist area
up near the dune grass
- Pectoral Sndpr - 7 - Oyhut GR, Ocean Shores
- Whimbrel - 5 - Oyhut
- Peregrine Falcon - 1 - Oyhut
- Blk-l Kittiwake - 1 - jetty
- Great Egret - 2 - Bay City bridge
A Merlin terrorized some crows on Mull St in Tenino earlier in the day.
Good birding!
--Paul Hicks, Tenino, s. Thurston Co
phicks AT accessgrace.org