Hey Tweets,

I made my way through a few counties on my own before spending some time with my family in Grays Harbor on Friday and Saturday this weekend. Nothing too rare to report, but the birds are certainly coming in.

Thurston County - Nisqually NWR: I didn't even hit the visitor center, but from the road just off of the freeway, found Greater Yellowlegs and Least Sandpipers in the slough roadside.

Lewis County - Goodrich Pond: No shorebirds, but three Bonaparte's Gulls. Ran into a birder who had seen shorebirds on Galvin Road, so I popped down there and found Western Sandpiper, Dunlin and Greater Yellowlegs.

Pacific County - Tokeland: Graveyard Spit had hundreds of Marbled Godwits and Short-billed Dowitchers and Dunlin. Also had some Western Sandpipers wheel in, and smaller numbers of Greater Yellowlegs and Black-bellied Plover, as well as a single Long-billed Curlew.

Grays Harbor County - Bowerman was kind of slow, but still held a few dozen peeps, mostly Least Sandpipers and Dunlin. The ocean beaches the next day were busier than I had seen before for shorebirds (never been there in April!) Marbled Godwit and Short-billed Dowitcher and Sanderlling were moving back and forth along the beach for several hours in the morning. Finished with a less than thorough search of the Point Brown Jetty, but still found some Black Turnstones and Surfbirds.

I won't be able to make it out next weekend, and am excited to hear about what else blows through!

-Tim Brennan
Renton

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