Subject: [Tweeters] Skagit Co Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
Date: Sep 28 21:18:02 2009
From: Marv Breece - mbreece at earthlink.net


Today I did some birding in Skagit County.

Channel Drive - I arrived about an hour prior to low tide. Several shorebirds flew in to check it out. The water level never got low enough to expose any mud. The shorebirds didn't stay and either did I.
LB Dowitcher - 6
Greater Yellowlegs - 5
a few peeps
Snow Goose - flock of 50 flew overhead
Peregrine Falcon - 1 young bird had designs on shorebirds, too

Skagit County
Western Meadowlark - perched on a fence post at Best and Downy Roads, singing away. My earliest fall record for Skagit county.
VG Swallow - 2 Samish Flats
Turkey Vulture - 1 on Fir Island
Barn Swallow - a few
American Pipits - everywhere

Jensen Access (Fir Island)
I arrived maybe 2 hours before high tide. First it was just a few plovers on exposed driftwood and the small grassy islands. As the tide continued to come in, the following species flew in.
BB Plover - 100 +
SB Dowitcher - 6 juv
Red Knot - 1 juv http://www.pbase.com/marvbreece/image/117682973
Sanderling -1 juv
Western Sandpiper - 1 juv
Pectoral Sandpiper - 7
SHARP-TAILED SANDPIPER - 1 juv http://www.pbase.com/marvbreece/image/117682980
Dunlin - 7
Also, 1 Wilson's Snipe flushed.

It was a good day.

Marv Breece
Seattle, WA
mbreece at earthlink.net