What a crazy little place this is. I stopped by this morning at 9:45am, the place was crawling with LEAST SANDPIPERS. Other shorebirds include
GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 1
LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 1 (most have cleared out)
DUNLIN - 5
LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER - 6
No Westerns, no phalaropes.
A flock of 60 VAUX'S SWIFTS came swirling in like a dust storm.
Also had 1 SANDHILL CRANE take flight from way in the back.

Then I returned later in the afternoon at 3:45pm, and the place was just about empty.
More than half as many LEAST SANDPIPERS, 20 WESTERN SANDPIPERS had showed up, and the GREATER YELLOWLEGS remained. After some time scoping for anything different, I spotted 2 male YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRDS in the back. I managed to get another distant grainy photo of one.

Dave Hayden
dtvhm AT nwrain.com
Centralia, WA




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