Tim Johnson and I walked around Pintail and Egret Marshes and checked the big fields adjacent on either side of that complex this morning before the heavy rain showers at ANWR. There were as many, or more, shorebirds than I've seen around here this spring:LEAST SANDPIPER 250+WESTERN SANDPIPER 5+BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER 1SEMIPALMATED PLOVER 10RED-NECKED PHALAROPE 4LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER 80+probable SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER 1KILLDEER 10+3 Streaked HORNED LARKS were in the big field NE of Egret Marsh, heard one singingTim has submitted our complete list (with fewer Least Sandpipers) on ebird, I say this because I think I'm forgetting something.Roy Gerig, Salem OR