[Birdtalk] Causeway, Garr Ranch, FBWMA

[Joel and Kathy Beyer]

Some of the birds we saw today...

AI Causeway:  3 Pectoral Sandpipers; 2 Willets; 5 Marbled Godwits; many
Least, Western and Baird's Sandpipers; 30+ Black-bellied Plovers; 3 Am.
Golden Plovers; 500+ Red-necked Phalaropes; thousands of Dowitchers; 4
Sanderlings; 5 Sandhill Cranes; lots of Pipits.

Garr Ranch:  juvenile Northern Goshawk, 1 Wilson's Warbler, 2
Orange-crowned Warblers, 2 Townsend's Warblers, 20+ YR Warblers, 2 Dusky
Flycatchers, 3 Red-naped Sapsuckers, 2 Townsend's Solitaires, 20
Flickers, 1 Cassin's Vireo, 30+ Ruby-crowned Kinglets, 1 Swainson's
Thrush, and at least 100 Hermit Thrushes.

Farmington Bay WMA:  38 species, including an adult Sabine's Gull, 2
Common Terns, 20 Lesser and 10 Greater Yellowlegs, 5 Wilson's Snipe, and
2 Short-billed Dowitchers.

Joel and Kathy