Subject: [Tweeters] Univ. Place Chambers Sightings
Date: Aug 13 11:50:45 2011
From: Gary Sogard - gsbssstg at msn.com






This morning (8/13) I stopped at the central meadow by the new Chambers Creek golf course. I was on the new pedestrian overpass to the beach, viewing the Osprey family, when a small flock of Red Crossbills landed in a nearby stunted Douglas fir. I was just beginning to enjoy the nearby, eye-level view, when an Amtrak train scared them away. Next I went down to the Chambers Creek estuary, and saw some doves landing on the muddy tideland below the road. When I got out of the car and approached them, they flushed. They were Eurasian Collared-Doves, about 25 of them, and they circled a few times before flying out of sight over the trees on the south side of the canyon. Also on the mud were about 10 Least Sandpipers, along with a couple Dunlin. Unexpected and unusual places to see the crossbills and doves. Gary SogardUniversity Place