I thought I would share some photographs I took on the outer coast this past sunday birding with Charlie Wright. It was a quick trip focusing mainly on several spots at Ocean Shores and then Midway Beach.



www.flickr.com/photos/shyalbatross



the recent tab on the right has all photos from the past few weekends


We did see the female Common Eider at the Game Range accessed from the STP.

Shorebirding was great with the first juveniles of the year for both Charlie and myself, 2 Semipalmated Sandpipers and more surprising 2 Common Nighthawks flying around at Midway Beach.



Numbers:

Ocean Shores Jetty

Ruddy Turnstone - 15

Black Turnstone - 25

Surfbird - 80

Wandering Tattler - 9

Sanderling - 15



Ocean Shores Game Range

Semipalmated Plover - 25

Black-bellied Plover - 10

Short-billed Dowitcher - 2

Least Sandpiper - 50

Western Sandpiper - 20

Dunlin - 1



Midway Beach

Greater Yellowlegs - 12

Lesser Yellowlegs - 18

Short-billed Dowitcher - 2

Long-billed Dowitcher - 16

Least Sandpiper - 20

Semipalmated Sanpiper - 2, juveniles

Western Sandpiper - 40, ~15 juveniles

Red-necked Phalarope - 6, 5 juveniles

Spotted Sandpiper - 1



Cheers


Ryan Shaw

rtshaw80 at hotmail.com

Tacoma

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