Subject: [Tweeters] POINT WILSON ANCIENT MURRELET!!!!
Date: Nov 17 17:38:53 2008
From: Ruth Sullivan - godwit513 at msn.com


Hello Tweeters,
Yesterday the 17th,I spend all the birdwatching on the Quimper Peninsula.I
had a late start do to the thick fog here,but it cleared up around Hood .I
started on Point Wilson at 10.00 AM.Do to the High tide Waterfowl and Grebes
where close by.It took about an hour when a flock of 14 Ancient Murrelet's
flew by,I waited around three hours before I left the area.I did see a
Yellow -billed Loon way out,here are the birds I saw in the 3 hours mostly
waiting for more Ancient Murrelet's
Surf-Scoter 75,White-winged Scoter 3, Horned Grebes 75,Western Grebes25,
HARLEQUIN DUCKS 30,Common Loon 6, Bufflehead 25,Pigeon Guillemont
3,Rhinoceros 6.A commend to make is when I left all birds I had so
close,where way out there ,hard to tell what there where.I also had no
Marbled Murrelet.
Checking out the beach in Port Townsends on the Marina,there where no
Shorebirds at all few other birds,not to mention,this is a real nice
beach,but this had to do to the high tide what did not going out to
fast.Mystery Bay also had NO birds.
Indian Island(the other side of Oak Bay produce 1 Black Oystercatcher, Black
Turnstone 16(this birds where on the Jetty)
Harlequin Ducks 20, Buffleheads 30,
Fort Flagler had the most bird in numbers
Light House Horn Grebes 30,Common Loon 2, Red -breasted Merganser 7_on the
ponds in back) Mallard 13, Gadwall 10, A. Widgeon 34.Fort Flagler is close
to mobil Traffic so it is all by foot, Robin 15,Hutton's
Vireo3,Golden-crowned Kinglet3,Ruby -crowned Kinglet 5,Yellow rumped Warbler
2, Pileated Woodpecker 1,Flicker 2,
As I approach the spit and it was getting kind of dark,I SAW 1000 and 1000
of Shorebirds start flying up and down .I walked the whole spit ,almost to
the end,to find out how many different species I there where. The birds
where cooperating not to disturb them I ducked down what helped ,there
shifted forward ,but did not flying up.The most where Black-bellied Plovers
and Dunlin,lots of Sanderlings to and many Black Turnstone with ONE ROCK
SANDPIPER.I stayed to dark and all the birds staying in big groups body on
body.It been a long time when I saw this many Shorebirds in this large
amount(ON THE OUTER BEACH IN OCEAN SHORES)

Cheers Ruth Sullivan