I don't know how the shorebirds will be during the WOS field trip here
next weekend (although I know from previous reports Matt always turns up
a great list of birds), but right now the birding is pretty good at
False Bay here on San Juan Island. Yesterday morning I spent half an
hour out there and turned up 20 total species. The shorebird list was
made up of 100 dunlin, 6 greater yellowlegs, 4 short-billed dowitchers,
and 1 marbled godwit. I was especially excited to find the godwit - they
don't show up often here and it was a new one for me in the county.

Other recent highlights include a mixed flock of black turnstone and
surfbirds at Cattle Point and a group of sanderlings and black-bellied
plovers at Fourth of July Beach.

Monika Wieland
Friday Harbor, WA
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