Subject: [Tweeters] migration in full swing!!!!!!!
Date: Aug 9 22:40:23 2012
From: Ruth Sullivan - godwit513 at comcast.net


Hello Tweeters ,
I LEFT MY HOUSE HERE IN TACOMA AT 10.00 AM and come home at 9.OO PM.BIRDYING
WAS SLOW ALL DAY and picked up TO THE LATE AFTERNOON. BECAUSE OF THE LATE
TIDE.TOKELAND,WESTPORT AND AT 6.OOPM
BOTTLE BEACH FOR ONE HOUR COUNTING THE BIG GROUPS OF
SHOREBIRDS!!!!I will only write up The large SHOREBIRDS FROM THE
MARINA IN WESTPORT ,AND CONTINUE TOMORROW MORNING FOR THE REST OF MY
TRIP.COMING FROM TOKELAND,DID HAD NOT TO MUCH NO SHOREBIRDS at all.Coming
in to the Marina IN WESTPORT there where already around 850 Marbled Godwit
circling around over and over before there finally settled on the large
jetty.But when flying I SAW ONE BIRD having the white rump WITH PALE
UNDERWINGS WHEN ALL THIS BIG GROUP SETTLED ,I COULD NOT FIND THIS BIRD BACK
BUT SOME OF THE BIRDS FLEW IN TO THE PRIVATE PROPERTY (WHERE ONE HAVE TO
GOING TRUE THE GATE.THERE WHERE ALSO 50 HEERMANN'S GULLS ON THE GRASS
BEHIND THE JETTY.
MORE TOMORROW,
RUTH SULLIVAN