Subject: [Tweeters] Big migration at KENNEDY CREEK!!!!!
Date: Feb 20 17:30:13 2010
From: Ruth Sullivan - godwit513 at msn.com


Hello Tweeters,
I intend birdying today Brady and Satsop.But for some reason ended up on Mud
Bay,and last KENNEDY CREEK.Stopping on the first bench,I could not believe
my Eyes.The Tide was perfect,with some water and a lot of Mud Flats,and
sofar you eye could see there where Shorebirds.First the thousands (hard to
guess)3000 + Than there where 350 easy Black-bellied Plovers,(I counted to
100) there where far out some Western Sandpipers close to the water.And than
there where 25 Long billed Dowitchers.I started in front by the beach,but
moved to the left ending in the new developed Park,where you can see for
ever so far.
Ok now comes the problem there where 6 birds could be easy Golden
Plovers.but looking to all my many bird books there also could be bright
Juvenile Black -bellied Plovers.I never had a chance to seeing Golden
Plovers so early in the Season.But taken the trip to the Eastside Waterville
Plateau seeing a MALE SNOW BUNTING IN BRIGHT BREEDING PLUMAGE every thing
is early this year.Patrick and I used to going a lot to Kennedy Creek
birding in the early Nineties,and I never recall that this birds came in to
this area early,

This are the birds I saw on Mud Bay.
3 Killdeer,1 Spotted Sandpiper,50 Buffleheads,3 Greater Scaup (rounded
head) 2 Horned Grebes.
30 Pintails,2 Green-winged Teals,2 Northern Shovelers.
To mention there where no Ducks ore Gulls to be seeing at Kennedy Creek.

Cheers Ruth Sullivan