Subject: [Tweeters] Re: Cowlitz County First Marbled Godwits
Date: May 9 19:42:35 2011
From: Russ Koppendrayer - russkope at gmail.com


Hi Tweeters,

I just received a call from Jeff Jendro who was a the Dike Road at 6:45 in
time to see the farmer flush the godwits as they prepared to pump the water
out of this pond, presumably in preperation for tilling.

Russ Koppendrayer
Longview, WA

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Russ Koppendrayer <russkope at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Tweeters,
>
> At 2:45 this afternoon (5/9/11) I found 3 MARBLED GODWITS at the Dike
> Road shorebird hotspot in the Woodland Bottoms. This is 0.6 miles south of
> where Dike Access Road "T's" into Dike Road. I-5 exit 22. The birds were
> still there at 5:35 when I swung past again. At 5:45 the previously reported
> HARLEQUIN DUCK had disappeared from it's spot near Kalama. Two new species
> for my personal Cowlitz list on the same day makes me think this retirement
> thing is OK even after a year and it seems the norm now.
>
> Russ Koppendrayer
> Longview,WA
>
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