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Lori Salzer and I had a couple of good bird sightings in northern Willapa Bay today while conducting boat-based surveys for Red Knots for WDFW.? The first was a sighting of four American White Pelicans swimming?in the northeastern part of the bay north of Range Point.? The birds then flew past us close enough that we could see the nobs on their upper bills.? They were last seen flying westward toward Hawks Point.? A short while later, we had a nice look at a female Red-necked Phalarope in breeding plumage while scanning through a large mixed flock of Western Sandpipers, Dunlins, knots, and dowitchers.??When the flock flushed, we saw a pair of phalaropes (one of which was presumably the first bird) flying separately from the area.? This sighting occurred on a mudflat about 1.5 miles south of the entrance to North River.
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Gary Wiles
Olympia, WA