430-630pm N. Jetty Road, Siuslaw River, Florence Greater White-fronted Geese - 30 Black Brant - 55 Green-winged Teal - 15 Northern Pintail - 3 Northern Harrier - 1 (strafed the flocks much like a Peregrine!) Black-bellied Plover - 3 Semipalmated Plover - 150+ Greater Yellowlegs - 2 Whimbrel - 7 Ruddy Turnstone - 1 Red Knot - 2 Western Sandpipers - 7000+ Least Sandpipers - 800+ Dunlin - 300+ Short-billed Dowitcher - 55 Dowitcher sp. - 5 Bonaparte's Gulls -70+ Caspian Terns - 25I also observed a probable Semipalmated Sandpiper, but the flock flushed. Birds were still flying past when I left, but nearly all the flocks had left the tidal flats (no more flats).
I've not seen an event like this in at least a decade and then, the variety of birds wasn't as great.
regards, Diane Pettey OBOL archives: www.freelists.org/archive/obol Manage your account or unsubscribe: //www.freelists.org/list/obol Contact moderators: obol-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx