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.
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.
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
Kay and I are going birding Sunday, to the coast unless something great pops up on Tweeters to chase. Anyone want to join us? Two seats in the car and we could caravan if more want to come. We can even call it an ABC field trip if desired. :.) Will probably leave about 6:30 AM, be back early evening. We can discuss this at tonight’s meeting.
Morse Banding report for July 14 with invited guests from ABC, forwarded by Clarice Clark:
Here’s the recap for today’s 29 birds:
New: 3 BCCH 5 SWTH 1 ORJU 1 PUFI 1 SPTO 1 WETA 1 WIWA 1 AMRO
Recaptures: 5 SWTH 3 SOSP 1 ORJU 1 SOSP 1 PSFL 1 BEWR
Unbanded: 3 RUHU
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Kay and I had lots of fun and enjoyed our first taste of bird banding at the Morse Preserve thanks to the invite from club member Clarice Clark today. We were told that the mist net yield was low, likely because of overcast weather, but it was fast enough for Kay and me. We got close up looks at adult and juvenile Swainson’s Thrushes as well as Spotted Towhees,
Dark-eyed Juncos, a Wilson’s warbler,
Bewick’s wren and a first year Rufous Hummingbird. Charlie Wright was there and was, as usual, a patient and engaging teacher. Clarice broke away and we joined her for a walk to check and clean her bird houses, and we enjoyed her sharing of nest making and contents for several species. If you get a chance to join this group some morning don’t pass it up. Kay and I broke away once the haze lifted and walked to the top of the observation tower to be surprised at the top of the steps by a raccoon.
Morse Banding July 4 – 50 birds!
Final report from Suzanne Tomassi and the rest of the banders at the Morse Preserve on July 4.
– Great day at Morse! Perfect banding weather, lots of cool birds. A little alarmed to see the cat and gargantuan raccoon!
new: 35 total
1 WIFL 1 OCWA 2 CBCH cute little HYs 1 YRWA!!!!!! First at Morse?? Audubon’s 1 BCCH 1 PSFL 1 WIWA 1 GCKI another cute HY 1 SPTO 5 ORJU 1 tricky BEWR (fully pneumaticized skull but little feather wear; photos make the body plumage look juvie (see my Facebook page) 4 PUFI 1 SWTH 2 CEDW 1 SOSP 1 cool DOWO 8 AMRO!! It was definitely AMRO day! 2 RSFL HYs. Boy, it’s hard to see their skulls
recap: 12 total
4 SWTH 1 OCWA 2 ORJU 2 PSFL 1 HUVI 1 SPTO 1 BEWR
unbanded: 2 RUHUs 1 ORJU – See you Saturday!! Thanks, Emma, Clarice & Jerry, Dan & Nancy!
suzanne
The fourth of July started out as a wonderful holiday banding birds all morning at the Morse Preserve near Graham! Jerry Broadus and Clarice Clark invited ABC members to watch while a team of 6 banders monitoring about 8 nets collected data on a couple dozen interesting birds including a Hutton’s Vireo, a couple of Bewick’s Wrens, a Pacific-Slope Flycatcher, several Swainson’s Thrushes, Cedar Waxwings, and newly fledged Flickers, among others. A number of ABC’ers and their family members watched and were allowed to release some of the birds.
They’ve invited members of our group back on July 14th for another session! You will love it! (Photos by Laurel Parshall and Diane Yorgason-Quinn)
ABC advanced birders are invited to observe bird banding at the Morse Preserve in Graham on two days: July 4 and July 14, 6 AM to 11 AM. Banders are Jerry Broadus and Clarice Clark.
Directions to and info about the preserve are on the Tahoma Audubon website at: http://www.tahomaaudubon.org/Default.aspx?pageId=122327
or here: 25415 70th Ave E., Graham, WA. From I-5 take Exit 127 on to WA 512 East
From WA-512 East take the Pacific Ave/WA 7 Exit. Turn right (south) onto Pacific Ave/WA 7. At the Roy “Y”, bear left, staying on WA 7. Turn Left at 224th St E (at the Fred Meyer) Turn Right onto 70th Ave E (at the light) Property is on the left at the 25415 mailbox
This is a special invitation to Tahoma Audubon/Forterra Conservancy preserve which you can normally visit only on Open Trails days, 2nd Sundays of each month, or for special events.
Our meeting on June 28 was pretty exciting and threatened to go overtime again! Ed and Kay Pullen reported on the field trip to central Washington, Kay Schimke reported on the spring Swifts at JBLM, Jerry Broadus reported on the interesting Bird Banders/OFO meeting in Oregon, and Clarice Clark invited us all to watch them band at the Morse Preserve in Graham on July 4 and July 14 from 6 to 11 AM! See separate announcement on this website. Ken Brown also got us thinking about more field trips and programs.
Then we had member slides including quiz birds (thanks, Melissa, Wayne, Diane, et al) and photos by John Riegsecker, Laurel Parshall, Heather Roskelley, Ed Pullen, Shep Thorp. We ran out of time and will be presenting further photos next meeting from Asta Tobiassen, Pat Damron, Melissa Sherwood, Wayne Sladek, me, and others. Thanks to Ryan Weiss for handling the photo presentation!
Next meeting July 26 featuring the inventor of LarkWire (bird audio)!
Diane Y-Q
