This morning I got out about 10 AM and spent a few hours checking out the various shorebird spots in Pierce. There were areas too dry (most), some too wet (the Fife Oxbow area) and overall not much success with shorebirding. First at Levy Pond really nothing. Very little mud still water too high. Then I went to the Oxbow remnant area and walked to the edge of the first “meadow-like” area. It looked fairly dry so I left my scope, walked back to the car, and put on my boots. I went back and about 3 steps into the area I was already over the tops of the boots. So much for looking drier.
At the 56th St. Stormwater ponds the fields are completely dry, and on the ponds I found a lone Long-billed dowitcher, and heard on Spotted sandpiper. Gog-li-hi-ti found the tides seemingly pretty good, a large mud expanse in the far pond, but not a single shorebird to be found.
Quick stops at the 11th street bridge showed big islands of mud downstream from the bridge, but just GWGU and a very few CATE. Killdeer were the only shorebirds. At the Middle waterway again pretty good mud, but not shorebirds, just the approximately 100 CATE roosting.
I had planned on going to the Chamber’s Bay beach access, but just headed home instead. Maybe tomorrow at Freeman on the weekend will be better.