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From: "David Fix Jude Power" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 20:16:08 -0700
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Subject: [obol] Humboldt Bay shorebird update

Extreme northern California coast .... delete if political boundaries
matter!  [uh, insert dumb smiley-face Emoticon here]

/  North Humboldt Bay from the foot of I Street, this afternoon:

80,000 Western Sandpipers (more than I expected) - briefly, one gigantic
flock of about 50K whirling around in the sky while some cretin in a
speedboat got his kicks making them toast all the fat they had just
deposited while feeding, thanks, -s-h-l-
20,000 Dunlin (ditto)
3,000 Least Sandpipers (sounds impressive, but these were mostly diffuse
among others)
2000 Short-billed Dowitchers (conservative)
200 Long-billed Dowitchers
200 Semipalmated Plovers - the most I have ever seen here inside the bay.
40 Marbled Godwit (almost all gone now- 6-8K in winter)
15 Greater Yellowlegs
5 Ruddy Sterntones
THREE Willets (almost all gone- ca. 2K winter -- amazing SeeYa act)
2 Red-necked Phalaropes
1 Black-bellied Plovers -- and that one in seemingly complete basic plumage
1 Black Sterntone
2 Peregrines, one eating a Dunlin while shorebirds swarmed around it on the
flats.


David Fix
Arcata


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