Sooty Shearwaters in one of their huge feeding flocks.

Richard Carlson

Full-time Birder, Biker and Rotarian

Part-time Economist

Tucson, AZ, Lake Tahoe, CA, & Kirkland, WA

rccarl at pacbell.net

Tucson 520-760-4935

Tahoe 530-581-0624

Kirkland 425-828-3819

Cell 650-280-2965

--- On Tue, 8/10/10, Rebecca Laszlo <minustide at live.com> wrote:

From: Rebecca Laszlo <minustide at live.com>
Subject: [Tweeters] ID help sought for various Ocean Shores birds
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Cc: "'Rebecca Laszlo'" <minustide at live.com>
Date: Tuesday, August 10, 2010, 12:46 AM












Saturday afternoon (8/7) small bait fish (maybe grunion) were
running in a huge mass at the tip of the OS jetty. Whale were feeding upon them,
right beyond the waves, next to jetty, and many tens of thousands of a single
species of bird feeding. They flew in along the waves in a flock that stretched
miles in length. Four? of us can?t figure out the species ?
shaped looking like murrelets in breeding plumage or small petrels. One of our
party thought there were some with light bellies, but not sure as they seem
pretty uniformly black. They make no audible calls. Slightly smaller than
Heerman?s Gull size, maybe. All seemed black, incl. black feet. Wings
taper to a sharp point. Anyone know what these might be? Photos from
digiscoping.

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Then yesterday (8/8) we saw a loon on the bay side near
Damon Point. Which loon is this? I got a clear pics of this.

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Then today (8/9) we saw what we believe are Red Necked
Phalarope (2 of them at Ocean Shores at Taurus beach approach, around 1pm
today) ? hanging out near a small flock of westerns. Did we ID these
phalarope correctly ?

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Pics located here: http://rlaszlo.smugmug.com/Animals/Ocean-Shores-Birds/13279116_ttNbi#964704691_GJngA


Site Password = ?tweeters?

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We are eager for identification help. Tx,

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-Rebecca Laszlo, Seattle WA, minustide at live.com






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