Today Kay and I took advantage of the great weather and headed to Ocean Shores after the traffic, about 9 AM. On arrival we went straight to the golf course targeting the Ross’s goose that has been seen there for the last few days. We spent about a half hour and on the first pass Read More…
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Westport Seabirds Pelagic Today
Ken and I headed for the coast yesterday and after traffic and detour delays arrived at the Hoquiam Sewer Ponds about 5:45 PM There we sorted through a moderate number of peeps without finding a Baird’s sandpiper but did find 3 adult Pectoral sandpipers. This was a FOY WA bird for me. From there we Read More…
Gray’s Harbor Shorebird Festival Bottle Beach to Tokeland Field Trip
Today Bruce Labar and I led the shorebird festival field trip visiting Gray’s Harbor from Bottle Beach to Westport plus stops in Tokeland and at Grayland Beach. We met at the festival HQ at 7 AM and enjoyed nice looks at a flock of Red-necked Phalaropes, Spotted Sandpipers, peeps, Dunlin, and Dowitcher flocks swirling around Read More…
Pelagic Cancelled so A Day at the Coast
Last night Ken and I headed for Westport to stay the night and head out on the winter Westport Seabirds trip. It was sketchy re weather, but yesterday Phil thought we could get out. Well on arrival this AM we learned that the seas had gotten rough overnight and the trip was cancelled. That said Read More…
Coast Trip Sunday
Ken, Ryan and I had plans to lead an ABC trip to the coast this weekend, but the only date we could get together on was one I couldn’t go on Saturday, so Ken and Ryan led the group down to Ocean Shores on Saturday, and Kay and I joined on Sunday. We met Chazz Read More…
Day at the WA Coast
Today I met Bill Tweit and Ken Brown and headed to Westport on a double agenda trip. The primary reason for the trip was so that I could meet with Bill and Phil Anderson of Westport Seabirds to discuss how they might make some improvements to their site. The secondary reason was to get to Read More…
Ocean Shores Rocks Migration
Yesterday Ryan Wiese and I headed to Ocean Shores and Gray’s Harbor to try for fall vagrant shorebirds and had a great day. We high tide was 8+ feet and expected about 5 PM so we arranged our timing around being at Bottle Beach about 2:30 expecting the usual crowd of shorebirds in the last Read More…