Tweeters,

I decided to follow up on Bob Flores' report posted yesterday of the
Sanderling on the pond along Lower River Road just south of Vancouver Lake
since that would be a new Clark County bird for me. I didn't see it
although a consolation prize was a very late in the season SEMIPALMATED
SANDPIPER in with the 80+ Least Sandpipers. Three Western Sandpipers and
11 Long-billefd Dowitchers showed that there is quite a bit of shorebird
turnover at this pond (compare with Bob's report from yesterday).
Vancouver Lake held 100+ Lesser Scaup which apparently had just arrived as
there were none on the lake yesterday and about 25 Western Grebes (all were
very far out and could only be viewed with a good scope).

Upon arriving back home, I heard about the ACORN WOODPECKER that Cindy
McCormack found at Fort Vancouver. Tossing out the idea of getting some
chores done around the house and thanks to a call from Bob and others who
were currently seeing the bird, I headed down to this area of Vancouver
that I had never visited before. When I arrived, I got the dreaded "it
went thatta way about 15 minutes ago". I went "thatta way" and found it
and was surprised to see two which was encouraging. Hopefully this'll be
the start of a colony since there are quite a few oaks in the area. I
ended up with a new county bird after all!

Keep your eyes and ears skyward.

Jim
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Jim Danzenbaker
Battle Ground, WA
360-702-9395
jdanzenbaker at gmail.com
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