Hi Tweets,

This Saturday, Chris S. and I birded the Oceanshores, Midway Beach and Tokeland areas. Nothing rare but a few decent birds were seen along with some late occurring ones. Overall a nice day until the light rain came down around 4PM or so.

Lots of water at Midway Beach and Damon Point was literally washed out at high tide. Walking on the jetty was quite the challenge and I fell in the shallow ponds at Midway Beach. A fun trip nevertheless.

*****OCEANSHORES AREA*****

20 Snow Geese (flyby)
6 Greater White-fronted Geese (Sewage Plant)
2 Brant (Damon Point-almost washed out)
1 POMARINE JAEGAR (Point Brown)
1 Sharp shinned Hawk
2 Merlin
2 Peregrine Falcon
1500+ Dunlin (Game Range)
12 Black bellied Plovers
1 PACIFIC GOLDEN PLOVER (Game Range)
5 RED KNOTS (Game Range)
3 Whimbrel (Game Range)
2 Willet (Game Range)
6 Black Turnstone (Point Brown and Game Range)
1 ROCK SANDPIPER (Point Brown)
1 Pectoral Sandpiper (Game Range)
1 RED PHALAROPE (Game Range)
1 BLACK LEGGED KITTIWAKE (Point Brown)
2 Harlequin Duck (Point Brown)
1 Eurasian Collar Dove

*****MIDWAY BEACH*****(literally several mini-beaches with lots of water)

3 RED PHALAROPE
3 Snowy Plover
2 Bonaparte's Gull
1 Peregrine Falcon
2 American Bittern
3 SNOW BUNTINGS (about 1.0 miles from Grayland Beach entrance)

*****TOKELAND*****

1 TROPICAL KINGBIRD (Kindred and North Rd)
2 PACIFIC GOLDEN PLOVER species (Graveyard Spit)
6 Black bellied Plovers
10 Willets
NO GODWITS (Zippo)

*****Elsewhere*****

1 Rough-legged Hawk near LaBam
1 Short-eared owl (along Hwy 105 and Airport Rd)
2 NORTHERN SHRIKE (along Hwy 105)

Good birding,

Khanh Tran
www.ktbirding.com