The Wood Sandpiper is present at the nature Conservancy location mentioned by Ryan Merrill south of samish island road on bayview Edison road.

It is hanging out with 3 greater yellowlegs.

Cheers
Ryan

Ryan Merrill <rjm284 at gmail.com> wrote:

>I assume many people will be looking for the adult Wood Sandpiper in
>the coming days and I wanted to stress how important it is to be on
>good behavior. The flooded field is part of The Nature Conservancy's
>Farming For Wildlife project which does a great job providing
>important habitat for migrating shorebirds. There are currently
>several fields in the Skagit area, but this is the only one that is
>viewable from a public road. For this reason, and due to a
>cooperative land owner not minding the idea of potentially large
>numbers of people looking for the bird, I was able to report the Wood
>Sandpiper in the first place, but I don't want to end up regretting
>that decision.
>
>The field is about half a mile south of the intersection of Samish
>Island Rd & Bayview-Edison Rd on the Samish Flats, on the west side of
>the road. There is plenty of room on the shoulder to park. Please
>park well off the road so you aren't blocking traffic. Probably more
>important is that when standing around scoping the field, please stay
>well off the road itself. It's a busy road both for cars and the
>local farmers. In the couple hours we were there today we had at
>least half a dozen cars stop to ask what we were looking at. This is
>a great opportunity to interact with the general public, but we don't
>want to leave a bad impression which I'm worried will happen if people
>forget their surroundings and wander into the road. So please, pay
>attention to where you are and if you see anyone else out in the road
>or doing any potentially dangerous or disruptive behavior, let them
>know.
>
>A couple photos are on my Flickr site. Don't expect views anything
>close to this though. The closest to the road that it was today was
>about 300 meters, with about 350 meters being more typical. With luck
>you can get identifiable views, especially if you happen to see it in
>flight. Twice while I was there it flew off to an area near the dike
>south of the West 90 WDFW access, but after an hour or two returned to
>this field. I was in the field itself doing surveys which is why I
>was able to see it more closely, but the landowner is not open to the
>general public entering the field. Early next week the part of the
>field close to the road should become flooded as well, so if it
>happens to stick around a few days, better views may become possible.
>
>http://www.flickr.com/photos/rjm284/
>
>TNC's Farming For Wildlife website:
>
>http://www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/regions/northamerica/unitedstates/washington/explore/farming-for-wildlife.xml
>
>Hopefully the Wood Sandpiper will stay a few more days so others can
>enjoy seeing it!
>
>Thanks,
>Ryan Merrill
>Kirkland
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