[birding] Re: Shorebirds at McFadden

[willwright26 at q.com]

Hello All,

     Yesterday around 4 pm I stopped in on Bruce Rd. to see what was happening.  Just over the RR tracks there was water on the field to the north and about 75 shorebirds.  I didn't have a scope, but it looked like mostly DUNLIN with a few DOWITCHERS.  The ponds have a nice mixture of MALLARDS, WIDGEON, GW TEAL, N SHOVELERS, and PINTAILS.  On the other side of Muddy Creek, an entertaining chase by juv. BALD EAGLE after a KESTREL while a ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK watched from a perch at the edge of the tree line.
    
     For those feeding ANNA'S, watch these frozen nights.  A male and female were waiting for me to thaw the bottle this morning.
P.S.  Snowy Owls have arrived in central Wash.

---Will
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