Hello all,

To any who are interested, I recorded the flight calls made by one of the
Red Phalaropes encountered at Leadbetter Point.

I uploaded the sound to Xeno-Canto:

http://www.xeno-canto.org/recording.php?XC=40499

<http://www.xeno-canto.org/recording.php?XC=40499>Good birding,

~Tayler Brooks
Brier, WA

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Charlie Wright <c.wright7 at comcast.net>wrote:

> Hello All,
> Tayler Brooks and I braved the weather on the coast today. We started at
> North Head Lighthouse near Ilwaco. The surf was impressive, making it hard
> to see much even at our height at the lighthouse. We had a SABINE'S GULL fly
> by along with a good number of Black-legged Kittiwakes. At Leadbetter Point
> we had two RED PHALAROPES.
> West of South Bend near Carruthers Slough there was a nice flock of 61 SNOW
> GEESE and 24 GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE. We checked the ag fields along Bay
> Center Dike Road at a very high tide, where we found a PACIFIC GOLDEN-PLOVER
> and a RED KNOT along with a nice mixture of other shorebirds. We tried to
> make a mad dash out to Tokeland Marina, but by the time we got there the
> light was fading and all the godwits were soundly asleep, so we couldn't
> pick out the Bar-tailed which very likely was present.
> Charlie Wright
> Bonney Lake, Washington
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