Hi Tweets,

Friday found Heather and I at a Morning minus low tide birding the mouth of the Puyallup River and the mouth of an adjacent restored remnant channel, the Middle Waterway. Fall migration is well underway, with over 100 Western Sandpipers, along with a few Leasts working the mud flats.

We were hoping for a sporadically seen immature Brown Pelican and found it feeding off the Puyallup River mouth and later roosting on the sand bar near the closed 11th st bridge over the Puyallup with over 350 California Gulls - a large number for this location.

The biggest surprise was the Caspian Terns - 100s and 100s of them! They were lined up along the exposed sand bar and we counted 574, that's a whole lot of Terns that are usually only present in much smaller numbers. And there were another 171 Terns roosting at the Middle Waterway and we're pretty sure they didn't move - that's over 700 Terns. Obviously, the fishing is quite good right now.

Good birding,

Marcus Roening
Tacoma WA

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