Subject: [Tweeters] Elma to Brady today - Lesser Yellowlegs,
Date: Apr 27 17:50:06 2008
From: Tim O'Brien - kertim7179 at yahoo.com


This afternoon I checked the areas around Elma, Satsop, and Brady. On the west end of Wenzel Slough Rd. in a recently plowed field there was about 50 Whimbrel working the field. There was a small flock of gulls in the same field that contained Mew, Ring-billed, and possibly one immature Glaucous Gull (it was distant).

On the south end of Foster Road, there was a large flock of about 150 Greater White-fronted Geese. Futher north on Foster Rd., I saw one Lincoln's Sparrow amidst the Savannah Sparrows that kept flying up off the edge of the road.

>From the north end of Foster Rd., if you take a left on Monte-Brady Rd. and go just a short distance to where you can view the flooded fields to the south I saw one Spotted Sandpiper.

On the west side of Brady Loop, I had a small group of six yellowlegs with 4 of them being Lesser Yellowlegs and two Greater Yellowlegs. I believe that is the most Lessers I have seen in one spot. Also, along the small puddles on this side of the loop were about 50 Least Sandpipers and 10 Western Sandpipers. One Osprey was sitting in one of the fields here too.

Lastly, in the wetland on the north side of Highway 8 just before it becomes Highway 12, there were two pairs of Cinnamon Teal and one pair of Wood Duck. Yesterday, Kraig Kemper had a Solitary Sandpiper here. No luck on that one yet.

Good birding!

Tim O'Brien
Elma, WA
mailto: kertim7179 AT yahoo dot com



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