[obol] Racetrack Lake Tu afternoon 23 Sep
- From: Thomas Love <tlove@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: OBOL <obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 14:14:52 +0000
A lot of shorebird action on Sauvie Island yesterday: the lingering RUFF and a
newly arrived MARBLED GODWIT with a dozen or so PECTORAL SANDPIPERS, both
YELLOWLEGS, and a few peeps in including a WESTERN S were at the Coon Point
spot (thanks Bob Archer for getting me on the rarities right away!), along with
maybe 100 SANDHILL CRANES in the area. Up in Columbia County, the survey at
Racetrack yielded but 6 WILSON'S SNIPES and 5 KILLDEER, but the nearby shore of
Sturgeon Lake held at least 50 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERs (mostly on the extensive
flats across on the east side of Oak Island), at least one PACIFIC
GOLDEN-PLOVER, a hundred or so GREAT EGRETS (surely there's a Snowy in amongst
them?), 200 or so AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS, and one BONAPARTE'S GULL among the
regulars. WHITE-FRONTED GEESE had apparently just arrived, there were many at
these two areas in among the many hundreds of CACKLING GEESE.
Tom L.
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