Subject: [Tweeters] Ocean birding yesterday the 20th of July
Date: Jul 21 18:14:16 2009
From: Ruth Sullivan - godwit513 at msn.com


Hello Tweeters,
I still want to post our sightings from yesterdays good birding,before we
hit Westport.
Our trip lead us to Bottle Beach,to Tokeland,and Midway Beach.
We started around 10.00AM,and the tide was still to far out.So we decided to
going on the long trail to se some passerines.This was the first time for me
to seeing that many Birds on this trail.We this hit it right on.Start on the
way we walked down the trail.COMMON YELLOWTHROADS 3 adults with many young
birds,YELLOW WARBLER 2,ORANGE-CROWN WARBLERS,8 YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS,2,
BLACK-CAPPED CHICKADEE'S10,BLUE HERON 12
(flying over)RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRDS 3,CEDAR-WAXWINGS
4,A.ROBIN,6,WHITE-THROADED-SPARROWS 10, SONG-SPARROWS 5, HAMMOND FLYCATCHER
1,GOLDFINCHES 6,WILSON -WARBLERS 4, RING-BILLED GULLS 15,BALD EAGLE 2,
SHOREBIRDS:
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS ,85,SHORT-BILLED DOWTCHERS,75 SEMIPALMATED - PLOVERS,6
WESTERN SANDPIPERS,200,RUDDY-TURNSTONE,1
,
TOKELAND:
WHIMBREL,93 SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS 40,
MARBLED GODWIT'S 9,
MALE AND FEMALE PURPLE MARTIN,HEERMANN'S GULLS 60,
MIDWAY BEACH,WESTERN SANDPIPERS 75 ,
FEMALE WILSON PHALAROPE 1

Happy Birding
Ruth Sullivan and Mikel MARSH
Tacoma,Washington