Today I birded the coast, looking for shorebirds.


Some highlights:


Ocean Shores Game Range
Buff-breasted Sandpiper -1
Baird's Sandpiper -1
Pectoral Sandpiper - 2
Greater Yellowlegs - 2
Least Sandpiper - 1 (the only peep)
Semipalmated Plover - 1
Lapland Longspur - 2 heard
Vaux's Swift - 1


Hoquiam STP
Stilt Sandpiper - 1
LB Dowitcher - 1 juv
Spotted Sandpiper - 2


Westport
Marbled Godwit - many by the Coast Guard Station


Tokeland
Willet - 7 at Marina
LB Curlew - 2 at Graveyard Spit
Marbled Godwit - a few on the breakwater


Midway Beach
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper - 1
LB Dowitcher - 1

It was a good day.



Marv Breece
Tukwila, WA
marvbreece at q.com