Subject: [Tweeters] Kennedy Creek 8-15 to 8-16
Date: Aug 17 17:41:08 2008
From: Ruth Sullivan - godwit513 at msn.com


Hello Tweeters,
I birdied again two days on Kennedy Creek in Mason County.The amount of
Shorebirds are so different on birds.As I became stuck in traffic from
Tacoma to Olympia driving 25 miles along.The tide was high at 10.29 PM at
10.3 feet .As I entered the Estuary the Shorebirds where already feeding on
the Mudflats and the water flowing in fast for a real big high tide.I had
only 30 minutes to looking over all birds.This is a huge area but this birds
feeding in the end close to Creek .
Birds are observed.
19 Black-bellied Plovers (in all different plumage)
1 MARBLED GODWIT
2 Long-billed Dowitchers
2000 Western Sandpipers
600 Least Sandpipers
25 Killdeer
1 Spotted Sandpiper
2 Blue Heron
1 Juvenile Merlin (chasing the Shorebirds w. no catch)
1 Kingfisher
35 Caspian Terns,California Gulls,Ring-billed Gulls ,Olympus Gulls, Mew
Gulls

Birding on 08-16
I got there so early to see the Shorebirds coming in at 1.00 PM The tide was
still way out,high tide was at 6.29PM,at 6.29 feet.I killed time picking
Blackberry's,and watching when the tide slowly coming in.But it was an
disappointment since there where few Shorebirds ,as 100 Least
Sandpipers,200 Western and the same Gulls and Terns.So this place can really
so much different this in one day.
GOOD NEWS is that there is going to be a new Natural Preserve open this end
of August the NARP been working on this place where you can see the
Shorebirds closer and don't climb down the steep Slope and be away from the
other place what is so close to the freeway.

Cheers Ruth Sullivan