Subject: [Tweeters] Ocean Shores, August 26. 26
Date: Aug 28 22:51:39 2009
From: Marvin S. Hoekstra - marvin.hoekstra at verizon.net


While vacationing in Ocean Shores, I checked out some of the birding sites
recently featured on Tweeters. I was hoping to spot the Buff-breasted
Sandpiper, Hudsonian Godwit, and King Eider.



On Wednesday, at about 3PM the Sewage Treatment Plant had Glaucous-winged
Gulls, Heerman's Gulls, and Canada Geese. I went over to the Tonquin Road
access to the game area, and scoped from the path near the "radar"
structure. This was a couple of hours before high tide. Most of the birds
were at a distance. I was able to identify Greater Yellowlegs and
Dowitchers. A flock of about six godwits landed but took off while I was
scoping them and did not return. Sandpipers were visible on the sand bank
in the distance, as was a Great Blue Heron, but I could not see any short
way to get closer, and I ran out of time.



On Thursday morning, at low tide, Tonquin Road access had brown ducks, but
no other birds. I walked the "landward" side of Damon point and saw
Glaucous-winged Gulls, Caspian Terns and Semipalmated Plovers. Further down
toward the tip, I spotted a series of single birds each swimming a short
distance off shore: Common Murre, White-winged Scoter, and Red-throated
Loon. On the beach was a single juvenile Black-bellied Plover, a single
Western Sandpiper and one Semipalmated Sandpiper.



Marvin S. Hoekstra

Sammamish, WA

marvin dot hoekstra at verizon dot net