----- Original Message -----
From: "Ruth Sullivan" <godwit513 at comcast.net>
To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 4:21 PM
Subject: Fieldtrip on my Birthday 0n May forth


> Hello Tweeters,
> It so happen that I did not found a space to have the right tide to lead
> my Fieldtrip,with out running in to the time with the Grays Harbor
> Shorebird Festival.so I picked the 4th of May concerning the Tide Four of
> us meet on Mud Bay at 7.00 am enough time to get to Bottle Beach,The birds
> where already close so we had good looks of them.The Highlight here was A
> MERLIN chasing the Shorebirds what is always great to watch.
> here are some of the birds we saw in the Park
> 3 Ruddy Turnstone in full breeding Plumage.150 Dunlin, 300 Western &least
> Sandpipers(there where hard to count)75 Black-bellied plovers
> many still in breeding Plumage.200 Short-billed Dowitchers,10 Semi
> palmated Plovers,3 Caspian Tern,
> 2 Marsh Wren, 1 Great Blue HERON.
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> TOKELAND
> ON THE Jetty 12 RUDDY TURNSTONE (all in breeding Plumage 1Common Loon
> Adult Plumage ,50 Greater Scaup,
> 125 Brant Geese Barn Swallow's Rough-winged Swallow's ,25 Dunlin,
> 25 Short-billed Dowitcher,35 Caspian Tern,10 whimbrel,Golden C.&
> White C.Sparrows
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> Westport:
> 35 Red necked phalaropes, 2 Common Loon,50 Brown Pelican,2Pigeon
> Guillemot,3 Brandt'sCormorant,2 Pelagic Cormorant
> 4 Western Gulls,
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> Midway Beach:
> 2 Green -winged Teals 4 Mallard Ducks, and 5 Savannah Sparrow
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> Brady Loop was slow do to the heat and only one little pond who had some
> water
> 40 Robin there where every where ,25 Brewers Black Birds,2 Killdeer,
> 20 Savannah Sparrows 5 , VIOLET-green Swallow,IT WAS REALLY
> SO SLOW NOTHING LIKE THE LAST 2 REPORT'S
> I can say when the weather is to hot,the birdying is not the best for
> little birds maybe later in the early morning ore later in the evening
>
> Cheers Ruth Sullivan& Jim Pruske (he works for Fish &Wildlife going to be
> retiring later this year
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