Ken Brown & Ryan Wiese took a group of ABC’ers over to the coast on a sunny windy weekend. On Saturday July 23 we covered the Hoquiam sewer pond (record stinkiness!) with a surprise finding of a family of Swainson’s Thrushes and the usual birds.
7-23-16 – Swainson’s Thrush in molt across from Hoquiam sewer pond
From there we headed for the Point Brown jetty where there were record numbers of Heermann’s Gulls and our first Brown Pelicans.
7-23-16 – Heermann’s Gulls
Ocean Shores jetty
Then, not having enough of sewer ponds (!), Ken directed us to eat lunch at the Ocean Shores sewer plant, which luckily was not stinky! Then off to Washout Beach where we continue our gull study there and at the Oyhut game range.
7-23-16 – Oyhut game range
Then off to Bill’s Spit where we hit the tide right and had thousands of gulls, terns, godwits, and whimbrels to sort through!
On Day 2, Ed & Kay Pullen and Chazz Hesselein joined us, and you can read about that on Ed’s blog:
Some of my photos are on FLICKR now (more to follow): https://www.flickr.com/photos/76552838@N03/albums/72157668638371674
Will be updating as Laurel and others post photos. Ed’s photos and Richard’s digiscopes of the Franklin’s Gull are on Ed’s blog.
Thanks to Ken, Ed, and others who helped with the eBirding!