Today the informal Pierce County birders text chain came through again, as Michael Charest relocated a Semi-palmated plover seen earlier at the Freeman Road mitigation. He texted Bruce and me at 4:46 PM and about 5:30 Bruce and I arrived about the same time and easily saw the bird with the other peeps. 196th Pierce Read More…
Category: Freeman Road Mitigation
Merlin Finally
So far this year a Pierce County Merlin had avoided me until today. I started at the Chamber’s Bay beach access where yesterday Bruce had seen 2 Baird’s sandpipers, but today I had just WESA and LESA for peeps, but did manage a distant Cassin’s aucklet. Best bird for me though was a perched Merlin Read More…
Freeman Road Mitigation Comes Through
This evening, after working at Hartland SDC all day, and after dinner, I broke free to visit the new Freeman Road mitigation site. It has dried up a lot, but there is still a large area of water and mud. Overall less numbers of peeps today, but more Western sandpipers (12) and my first 3 Read More…