Tweeters,

I'd love to tag along on a field trip to Point Wilson or Point No Point, or a similar location when I am in Seattle february 7-14. Are there any trips scheduled? I'd especially like to see Ancient and Marbled, and Yellow-billed Loon. Oh, and Rock Sandpiper would be great!

Thanks,
Steve Compton
Greenville,SC
---- Ruth Sullivan <godwit513 at msn.com> wrote:
> Hello Tweeters,
> I led a Fieldtrip for the Tahoma Audubon yesterday to Point Wilson,what
> became a Hotspot birding place for the last three months,thanks to Bob
> Whitney who at all times keep us informed in details what can be sighted in
> the Port Townsent crossing the Hood Canal Bridge in the distance where we
> was going it looked clear sky.We arrived at Point Wilson at exact 9.00
> AM.The high tide was at 5.36 AM, with a 9.7 feet and a second high tide
> coming in at 2.45 PM.at 9.0 feet
> We all scoped especial looking for the Ancient Murrelet's,as the first group
> came with 20 birds flying to the right in a tight group.
> But a few minute later a bigger group came who had around 80 Ancient
> Murrelet's.
> Here are the other birds we had for the time we stayed around Common Loon
> 5,Red -throaded Loon 1, Pacific Loon 1,Surf Scoter 5,Red breasted
> Merganser10,Western Grebes,2,Horned Grebes 10,Western Grebes 1,Buffleheads
> 12,Harlequin only 2,DC Cormorant 10,Pelagic cormorant 3,,Glaucous Gulls 21
> ,Mew Gulls 6,We probable could had more birds,but we had to go on the other
> areas we intend to visiting.
> We all were eager to going to Port Hudson looking for the many
> Black-Turnstone and finding the 2 Rock Sandpipers.
> You can hear the many Turnstone calling with there guttural rattle.There
> where about a guessing of 150 Black Turnstone .We managed to see the 2 Rock
> Sandpiper who was sleeping and was not disturbed by all the noise and
> flittering of the Black Turnstone.At several times this 2 Rock Sandpiper
> lifted there head ,so we all saw the longer bill.We also had 1 MARBLED
> GODWIT in this group.We basically repeated some of the species in this
> area,but it was out of the ordinary to seeing a Common Loon taken of to
> flying quite high up in the air.We did had our first Hooded Merganser here 2
> Males and one female.
> Next we visiting the KAH-TAI LAGOON in Port Townsend
> Here are the highlights:
> Both female and male Greater Scoup,1 female Lesser Scoup,55 Ruddy Ducks,25
> Wigeon, A pair of Gadwall.,Lot's of Buffelheads ,Coots.Great -Blue Heron,Fox
> and Song Sparrows.
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> Indian Island Lagoon Beach
> High count on Brant Geese 450 birds in the Lagoon,Lot,s of Mew
> Gulls&G.W.Gulls,12 Cackling Geese,Pileated Woodpecker 1,All 3 Cormorants,15
> Black Turnstone (on Jetty) 1 Pigeon Guillemont,18 Red-breasted
> Merganser,Bald Eagles 4.We had all together over 10 Bald Eagles on this
> trip.
> On the way to Fort Flagler we had one most beautiful rufous morph Red-tailed
> Hawk (the only Red-tailed on this trip)
> We also had a Scrub Jay on the way to Fort Flagler.
> This are the birds we found on the entrance going right 300 Pin Siskin,
> Golden-crowned Kinglet's 2, Ruby -crowned Kinglet's,2 Downey Woodpeckers,1
> Brown Creeper,Lot's of Robin and Varied Thrushes,( on the lighthouse,the
> back Ponds)
> the only Northern Shovelers 12.
> Mystery Bay, 1 Eared Grebe,lot's of Horned Grebes,Pigeon Guillemont 1,More
> Varied Thrushes,
> OAK BAY, high count on Northern Pintails 300, and more Bufflelheads Pelagic
> Cormorants
> All together we had 65 Species for the day,but lot's of birds to count
> Big misses where Long-tailed Ducks
> Cheers Ruth Sullivan
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