Sunday and Monday I birded the Westport area, including Tokeland. Shorebirds were plentiful. Especially Ruddy Turnstones. The most I have ever seen at Bottle Beach. Don't know how many. I lost count at 11 when all the birds got up. There were a lot more RUTUs than 11. Saw them other places as well.

Brady Loop 5.6.18
Western Sandpiper - 25
Least Sandpiper - 3
SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 1; short, straight, think & blunt bill. No reddish in plumage. My first spring GH county record.
Semipalmated Plover - 3
Peregrine Falcon - 1 adult; the reason I didn't get a photo of the semi sand!
Blue-winged Teal - pair off of Foster Rd
Cackling Geese - about 40 minima
Leucistic Minima - this is strange after reading about good sightings of Ross's Goose the day before, at this location. My bird was an off-white and I could clearly see the chin strap as it flew eastward overhead w/ minima flock. I could not relocate it.

Hoquiam STP 5.6.18
Least Sandpiper - 10
Long-billed Dowitcher - 10 in " fresh " water; hunchbacked; called like LB when they flew
Greater Yellowlegs - 2
Spotted Sandpiper - 2
Western Sandpiper - 1
Killdeer - 1
Semipalmated Plover - seen from the boardwalk trail; must have been hundreds ; they were scattered over the beach at low tide.
Peregrine Falcon - chasing shorebirds; seen from trail

Bottle Beach 5.6.18
Short-billed Dowitcher - many
Red Knot - did not count; but more than a few
Western Sandpiper
Ruddy Turnstone - many more than previous years at this location
Black-bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Greater Yellowlegs
Dunlin

Twin Harbors Beach 5.6.18
Sanderling
Sooty Shearwater - numbers moving north
Red-throated Loon - seemingly as far as the eye could see.
Black-throated Grey Warbler - singing in the park


Bottle Beach 5.7.18
same birds as 5.6; also:
Orange-crowned Warbler - several seen & heard
Brant - large raft in distance

Tokeland, Graveyard Spit 5.7.18
Whimbrel - 7
Semipalmated Plover - 3
Caspian Tern
Western Sandpiper - thousands
Dunlin
Sanderling
Short-billed Dowitcher - a few
Ruddy Turnstone - 1
Marbled Godwit - 2

Tokeland Marina 5.7.18
Purple Martin
Black Turnstone - 1
Ruddy Turnstone - 2
Western Grebe - possible hybrid?
Least Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Whimbrel - 17
Greater Yellowlegs
Marbled Godwit - 2

North Cove 5.7.18 - viewed from highway pull-out
Western Sandpiper - 2
Spotted Sandpiper - 1
Semipalmated Plover 2
Ruddy Turnstone - 10 (ten!)

Westport 5.7.18
Brown Pelican - 3 seen at end of jetty
Wandering Tattler - 2 seen from tower at marina (with patience, a reliable place)

Videos of some of the above at:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/138163614 at N02/


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Marv Breece
Tukwila, WA
marvbreece at q.com

Concepts shape our world.
Concepts are not hard wired.

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