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Coast trip report Aug 25-26

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What a great trip to the coast this past weekend put together by Ken Brown and Vera Cragin! We spent the weekend looking for and looking at rarities. A new record of number of shorebirds seen on one weekend: 27! Will expect Ken to post a list soon. In the meantime, here are several photos:

Photo of group at Westport shows Vera, Laurel, Ken, Carol, David, Pat, Melissa, Faye (not shown Wayne, Diane, Jack).

Swift field trip Sept 9

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Come see the most amazing Vaux Swift chimney in the state, maybe in the world, on Sept 9. Those of you not going on the 3-day trip this weekend, come for one evening northwards with me. Those who sign up can help determine whether we make any stops along the way and thus the route and time to leave. We’ll be going to the old Northern Hospital grounds where a huge chimney was just uncapped 3 years ago and promptly “stole” many of the swifts using other chimneys. This outing is just for ABC’ers, as there are other (closer) swift trips thru Tahoma Audubon open to all on other dates (see The Towhee).

Contact Diane Yorgason-Quinn at Avosetta@hotmail.com or 253-857-3367.

September 8-9-10 Eastern WA Field Trip

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Join Ken and Ed for a 3 day Sat-Monday trip to look for eastern vagrants and other fall specialties.  Set the time aside, more details to follow.  You can call Ken at 360-876-9509 or Ed at 253-905-5662 (evenings) for details when the time gets closer.  We will be watching for sightings, may do some chasing.  Should be fun.

Coast Trip August 25-26th

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Ken and Vera will be leading a trip to the coast on Aug 25 & 26.  Join them in the two day coast birding outing for gulls and shorebirds.  Meet at 6:30am at I-5 & sr512 p & r, sat morning.
We will try ocean shores sat. heading to possibly tokeland, midway beach, westport and bottle beach.
Bring rubber boots, lunches, we will eat out sat night and motel, where I have not decided. Call Ken at 360-
876-9509 for details, if needed and to reserve a spot.

Ocean Shores Trip 7-29-12

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Our short notice trip to Ocean Shores went very well, with 7 ABC members attending, including David Marshall, new to the group, Ken, Carol, Roger, and Laurel joining Kay and me on a warm and mostly sunny nearly windless day.  Highlights were many tens of thousands of Sooty Shearwaters off the Jetty and the coast near Oyhut and great looks at the usual variety of shorebirds at the game range behind the Tonquin Ave stop.  Maybe the other most remarkable thing was zero rock birds at the jetty. We had fun with gulls as with any trip Ken joins, and of course a discussion of molt was mixed in here and there.

At least two Lesser Yellowlegs and one Semi-palmated Sandpiper joined the more usual shorebirds at the game range, and although we were unable to find any odd shearwaters mixed in the steady streams of Sooty’s it was lots of fun to see the “sheer” numbers.  Just getting out with friends and enjoying both the birds and the weather was great.

Challenge to all ABC’ers.  If you are going out and have a spare seat in your vehicle, or are willing to have another car or two tag along post on this site and find fellow members to go along.  All field trips don’t have to be thoroughly planned and executed.  Just a day of birding with fellow members is great.  You can find more trip list details on e-bird,my user name is epullen.

Good birding.

Ed Pullen