Subject: [Tweeters] Queen Eider at Ocean Shores Yes
Date: Mar 5 22:31:35 2010
From: Hans-Joachim Feddern - thefedderns at gmail.com
Bob, Tweeters,
By any chance, did you take a closer look at the male Green-Winged Teals? I
never posted this, but on February 20th, I did have a "Common" -horizontal
stripe- Teal at the sewage ponds.
Hans Feddern
Twin Lakes/Federal Way, WA.
thefedderns at gmail.com
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Bob Schmidt <bobs at world-wide.com> wrote:
> Peter Carr of Seattle and I travelled to Ocean Shores arriving around
> noon today. At Brown?s Jetty we met another birder Richard (sorry missed
> last name) from Rainier Audubon and spent some time examining ROCK
> SANDPIPERs and BLACK TURNERSTONEs. Next we travelled to the Sewer Treatment
> Plant for a bunch of GREEN-WINGED TEAL and LESSER SCAUP but not much else.
> The real action was at the breakwater and bay just to the east of the STP.
> After finding all 3 SCOTER and trying to make some of the female/juveniles
> into the elusive female KING EIDER, Peter and I finally found her just after
> Richard left. She was on the outside of the breakwater rather than in the
> bay we had spent most time looking. Large waves precluded a photo but we
> saw the head field marks through binoculars and scope. Missed long-tail
> duck, surfbird, black-legged kittiwake, but with the lifer eider, 40 other
> bird species, 5 spouting gray whales, and sunny weather - it was a good day.
>
>
>
> Bob Schmidt
>
> Bothell, WA
>
> Bobs at world-wide dot com
>
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