----- Original Message -----
From: "Ruth Sullivan" <godwit513 at msn.com>
To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Cc: "Ruth Sullivan" <godwit513 at msn.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 6:52 PM
Subject: HUDSONIAN GODWIT Today!!!!!!!!!


> Hello Tweeters,
> After a long trip to the Coast yesterday,leading a Tahoma Audubon trip,I
> decided to trying for the Hudsonian Godwit today.I got there quite
> late,and I hiked way out behind the sewage ponds.There was only few birds
> there 2 Dowitcher 3 Western Sandpiper and few Greater Yellowlegs.It was
> not to 2.30 PM when 5 Yellowlegs flying in to the grassy spit,It was hard
> to detect all the birds,but 1 bird was different and looking to the scope
> I saw the Hudsonian Godwit.It was so hard to see this bird since the grass
> covert most the bird.But at one time he walked out,and I had a good look
> of the whole bird.I am going to write the trip from yesterday up.Right now
> I am so tired driving again 232 miles.
>
> Cheers Ruth Sullivan