Hello Tweeters
Vicki Biltz an I birdied on Thursday the day after the Big Storm hit
Washington.The weather was great warm with little wind and no rain all day.I
mention this right from the beginning."The Point Brow Jetty " was completely
deserted,there was not even ONE GULL to see,there was some people looking at
the Big waves who was coming over the jetty,but looking way out there was
NOTHING.This is the first time that I saw this place so deserted,and the
weather was great.Since we was already on the beach,I wanted to show Vicki
the outer beaches where in the fall we always had many Shorebirds.But we
could only staying on the edge to the beach .The whole beach was covert with
a foamy bubble,you would not dare step in to.As we watching the beach and
the moving bubbles a flock of 30 birds flying over the beach grass,at one
point I saw the coloration of a Lapland Longspur.This birds never settled
and went fort and back and than suppose to settling in the tall grass.This
was our Best birds of the day.This was the Driftwood exit.We also had few
House Finches on our stay there.

Now I start from the beginning..Ii was as early as 7.15 when Vicki saw 2
Adult Bald Eagles flying over the Nisqually Delta.We stopped at Mud Bay
where there was 52 Buffleheads and 33 Dunlin.
Next Stop was Bowerman Basin who had a lot of birds on the Sewage
Ponds.CANVASBACK100,Bufflehead 100 Scaups both species 125,Shoveler
20,Gadwall 1,Common Goldeneye 1,Coots 3, MEADOWLARK 7,Golden Crowned Kinglet
6,Golden Crowned Sparrow 14,Song Sparrow 2, Adult Redtail Hawks 2,Pintail
2,Great -Blue Heron 2,Horned Grebe 2,
Gulls Ring-billed Gulls ,Mew Gulls ,Glaucous -winged Gull,and Olympus Gulls.
This area is around the bay of Bowerman Basin: Widgeon 25,Canada Geese
50,Pintail 8,Green-winged Teal 25,Least Sandpiper 37,Towhee,1
Chestnut -backed Chickadee 3,
To Ocean Shores: in fields, Canada Geese75, Greater Yellowlegs 1,
We took the Burrows Road,and was glad we took this way, on the piling and
logs in the water,we had the masses of Shorebirds of the day. BLACK-BELLIED
PLOVER 750, DUNLIN 2000 BIRDS and a flock of Pine Siskin 75
Ocean Shores Golf Course GREATER WHITE -fronted Geese 53,with 5 Cackling
Geese.
Ocean Shores Sewage Plant should had some Shorebirds after the big storm,but
was pretty quite.Greater White-fronted
Geese 2, with 12 Canada Geese,Least Sandpipers 7, and few other ducks as
Green-winged Teals an Shovelers.Horned Grebes 4,Horned Grebes 3,
The Wetlands below the Sewage Pond had only few Pipits,it seems
deserted.Bill Spit has 1000 and 1000 of Gulls to far to ID.But we had large
Groups of WIGEON on the Mud walking and more flying in 250 birds,Dunlin 15
with Black-bellied Plovers 2, DAMON POINT WAS CLOSED OFF ,so we birdied from
the Marina and the Silver King Motel,this was the second Big Group of birds
we had, Western Grebes 15,Horned Grebes 12,Common Loon 6,Red Throaded
1,Pacific Loon 1, Surf Scoter 9,WHITE WINGED SCOTER 1, Red breasted
Merganser 37,Buffleheads 20,Whimbrel 5,
We intend birding yet in Brady Loop Road,but it was getting to dark to
see.As we enter Brady the FULL MOON WAS SO LOW and SO ORANGE BRIGHT IN
COLOR.TO END THE DAY LIKE THIS WAS AN EVENT ONE NOT TO FORGET.We saw a group
of Shorebirds flying over the Road,Vicki got out and ID the birds as being 5
Killdeer,what we added to our list.I got good practice for my CBC to count
every bird.We both had a great day with surprises on the outer beaches with
all the beach full of foam from the Ocean.


Cheers Ruth Sullivan and Vicki Biltz