Highlights from birding yesterday in Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties

GRAYS HARBOR COUNTY

Brady Loop
Tundra Swan - 3
Greater White-fronted Goose - 40 or more
Peregrine Falcon - 1 juv
Black-bellied Plover - a few; perhaps 10 or so
Dunlin - a few
Short-billed Dowitcher - 2
Greater Yellowlegs - 50 or more
Pectoral Sandpiper - 1 in flooded field at west end; unusual in spring; this record is especially early

Bottle Beach
An hour or so before high tide there was a total of perhaps 50 shorebirds at this location.
Greater Yelowlegs - 1
Dunlin - a few
Short-billed Dowitcher - a few
Western Sandpiper - 4
Black-bellied Plover - a few


PACIFIC COUNTY

Tokeland
Marbled Godwit - at Graveyard Spit (7th St), the broken dock at the marina and at the marina breakwater; well over 100 at each location
Short-billed Dowitcher - 50 or more at Graveyard Spit w/ MAGO
Dunlin - a few
Long-billed Curlew - 6 at Graveyard Spit
Whimbrel - 1 at Graveyard Spit and 1 at the marina
Willet - 7 at the marina
Black-bellied Plover - a few
Semipalmated Plover - 2 on beach at high tide near seafood store

near Raymond
Gyrfalcon - Between Tokeland and Raymond; about 6 miles from Raymond. When spotted the bird was soaring overhead. It then stooped over the trees towards the bay, out of sight. I was unable to relocate the bird.


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Marv Breece
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