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Bowerman Basin and Ocean Shore Field Trip (5/4/02) Highlights
Eleven of us started out in four cars at 7:00 and arrived at Bowerman at 9:30. It was a cool, windy, cloudy day but no rain.
The tide was way out, high tide at 7:09, so we didn't get close looks at the thousands of Western Sandpiper, Dunlin and Semipalmated Plover.
Lots of waterfowl at Hoquiam Ponds with two Cinnamon and two Blue-winged Teal, Bonaparte's Gulls, four swallow species and a Vaux's Swift. We were joined by two more Eastside Audubon members at Ocean Shores and later by another couple who had missed meeting us at Bowerman Basin.
Highlights at Ocean Shores were Common Murre, Pigeon Guillemot, Whimbrel, Black and Ruddy Turnstones, Black-bellied Plover. Rock Sandpiper and Wandering Tattler were seen by those who ventured out to the end of the jetty. Black-legged Kittiwake and Rhinocerus Auklet were also seen at the jetty.
The 76 species was the highest total for this annual Chapter trip and compares with 66 in 2001, 56 in 2000, 58 in 1999, 68 in 1998 and 64 in 1997. There were 15 birders and 76 species sighted,
