Hi all,

Starting to sound like a broken record for some Fowl Rap album. But here it is, and promise no 'foul' wraps here to make you nauseous:)

I had a fun, successful birding trip with Greg Baker and Robert P. visiting Mt. Adams/Mt. Rainier/Ocean Shores on 10/10 and 10/11.

Spent only 1.5 hours at Game Range and there were good number of birds but nothing out of the ordinary on Saturday.

Mt Rainier was clear and nippy on Sunday but the hike was nevertheless invigorating. Seeing ptarmigans and other fun birds got the blood flowing.

Good numbers of Evening Grobeaks, Pine Siskins, Varied Thrushes, and Clark's Nutcrackers at both mountains.

I will submit a VIDEO clip and PHOTOS at a much later time.

*******Mt Adams (Takhlakh Lake and Killen Creek Area)********

2 Horned grebes (Horseshoe Lake)
3 SPRUCE GROUSE (adult male and two subadult females)
2 Sooty grouse
3 Ruffed grouse
1 NORTHERN GOSHAWK(adult)
1 Barred Owl
1 Red breasted Sapsucker
1 BLACK BACKED WOODPECKER (male)
3 American Three Toe
30 Red Crossbills
2 White winged crossbills (pair with male singing)

*****Tokeland*********

1 BAR TAILED GODWIT
900 plus Marbled Godwit
10 Willets

*****Midway Beach*****

2 PACIFIC GOLDEN PLOVERS

*****Oceanshores (Oyehut Game Range only)

300 Longbilled dowitchers and 50 at Sewage Ponds
10 Black bellied plovers
25 Dunlin
500 Western Sandpipers
25 Least Sandpipers
40 Pectoral Sandpipers
1 AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER
1 Peregrine Falcon
1 Bald Eagle

*****Mt Rainier (Paradise)*****

1 ROUGH LEGGED HAWK
1 PRAIRIE FALCON
3 WHITE TAILED PTARMIGANS (tough to distinguish sex)
3 Sooty grouse (all males)
1 NORTHERN SHRIKE
50 GRAY CROWNED ROSYFINCHES
3 PINE GROSBEAKS (one male and two immatures/female)

Good birding,

Khanh Tran
www.ktbirding.com