Subject: [Tweeters] "nearly as good" Skagit shorebirds
Date: Sep 24 08:42:47 2007
From: Gary Bletsch - garybletsch at yahoo.com
Dear Tweeters,
I guess I should have gone where Ryan Merrill went
yesterday, instead of listening to the Harley
Davidsons roar (and get into accidents) around Samish
Flats. That trip was intended as a search for Horned
Larks, of which I found none. There were lots of
American Pipits and Barn Swallows, and a few
Violet-green Swallows.
At Alice Bay were about 100 Black-bellied Plover, a
PACIFIC-GOLDEN PLOVER, five Short-billed Dowitchers,
two Dunlin, and an out-of-habitat Black Turnstone.
Along the slough between Edison and West Edison were
four Leasts, a Wilson's Snipe, and, oddly enough, a
HOUSE WREN.
Up at Lyman at the Skagit River, there have been some
shorebirds and such this past weekend.
Friday: 4 Pectoral Sandpipers;
Saturday: 14 Wilson's Snipe, 1 Greater Yellowlegs, 1
Long-billed Dowitcher, 1 Pectoral, 3 Killdeer.
Sunday: 13 Wilson's Snipe, 3 or 4 Long-billed
Dowitchers.
Yours truly,
Gary Bletsch
near Lyman (Skagit County), Washington
garybletsch at yahoo.com
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