I gently suggest that the use of "alpha codes" instead of English names of
birds can be frustrating to the non-scientist members of Tweets.
No field guide or general interest bird book uses them, and printing them
out takes half a ream of paper.

Just a thought.

Max Warner Tacoma


On Wed, 7 Aug 2019 at 10:06, <tomboulian at comcast.net> wrote:


> After missing it on Sunday (looking in the main arm of the lake), I

> decided to follow Blair Bernson's directions to the back channel and was

> rewarded.

>

> I arrived before 6 am in incredibly dense fog and found the 50 mph

> signpost he referenced but could not locate any path. So I walked around

> the far eastern reach of the lake and upon heading back west intercepted

> the well-worn (at that point) trail over the Saliconia flats and arrived at

> a back channel of the lake which appears to be minimally influenced by tide

>

> I was able to get within 30' of the HUGO, and got excellent photos of it,

> as well as one LBDO, one PESA, as well as LESA, WESA, both yellowlegs, and

> killdeer. On the low-tide but rising mudflats of the main arm of the lake

> were much larger numbers of peeps but way far out there. SESA and SEPL

> were out there but distant scope views only

>

> So if you go, find the 50 mph marker and park in the lot across the road

> (Discover Pass needed). Looking north, the path is just to the right

> (east) of the 50 mph sign, between it and a concrete marker (and three fish

> sculptures on the fence a bit farther east). The trail at first is much

> harder to see. Requires a few mud hops, but after about 500' the trail is

> quite obvious and you go north until you find a large piece of driftwood

> from which you can easily scan the back channel

>

> Mark Tomboulian

>

> Shoreline, WA

>

>

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