Same thing in Douglas Co. today. First day I've seen some decent
movement. Had 7 flocks of WESTERNS heading north (all less than 50
birds) plus about 150 on the beach up near Siltcoos, Lane Co. Back in
Douglas near Tahkenitch Cr also had ~40 SHORT-BILLED DOWS fly over
calling, a handful of SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS in the Western flocks, ~10
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, ~20 WHIMBREL, a GREATER YELLOWLEGS and lots of
SANDERLING (but they winter there). They are just getting warmed up,
next week should be fun. Also pretty sure I heard a Lapland Longspur
heading north, but it only called once and did not hear it too well.
No geese today.
Daniel Farrar
Dunes City, Oregon
jdanielfarrar@xxxxxxxxx
On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 11:25 AM Phil Pickering <philliplc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Still a week off until the normal time when a 100,000 to > several 100,000
plus shorebirds can be seen moving > north in a morning.
Moderate shorebird flight already passing the central
coast this morning despite low cloud ceiling/drizzle,
including a very early group of 6 Knots flying with
Westerns off Spanish Head.
With the improving weather and north wind this
weekend could see a pretty good head start on things.
Phil
