[obol] [Fwd: Ridgefield NWR---River S unit..........]

[gerald]

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Subject: 	Ridgefield NWR---River S unit..........
Date: 	Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:45:24 -0700
From: 	gerald <gerald at e-z.net>
To: 	Tweeters at u.washington.edu



.................An absolutely gorgeous afternoon--72 degrees with a NW 
wind and full sun-----my kind of weather!!!! Cloudy morn. helped keep 
aft. temps. moderate.
.................The RED-SHOULDERED HAWK is still around making low 
passes overhead several times in an hour or two's time by the Kiwa Trail 
before heading off toward Rest Lake. It shared the air with several NO. 
HARRIER HAWKS (...sure plenty of these around today!!!). The 
Red-Shoulder was a "1st timer" for me----I can now scratch it off my 
frustrating lists of "no-see-ems"----birds people report seeing, and I 
never have---and I rush out to the location reported only not to find 
then---have either "moved on out", or they decided that "it wasn't my 
day to see them" and moved elsewhere else near by. :-)  Oh well, you all 
know the story!!!!! Oldsquaws, Harlequin Ducks, and Golden Plovers ore 
on "my hit list"---Birders keep reporting them, but when I get there 
they are gone. (...Remember the Am. Golden Plover at Ridgefield NWR. 
along the auro tour routt several weeks ago???  Was reported for over a 
week, but when I got there it was gone---it had left the area the*day 
before*.!!!)
...............Still a good number of TREE SWALLOWS around, along with 
BLACK-CAPPED CHICKADEES, WOOD PEEWEES, WARBLERS (10 power binos. 
couldn't focus close enough to ID.  :-[ ) and some SPARROWS. GREAT BLUE 
HERONS everywhere,  along with GREAT EGRETS and AM. BITTERNS. River 
water is being pumped through the sloughs to Rest Lake and other main 
ponds, so very little mudflats around. However did observe a flock of 
'peeps' acrosss Rest Lake from the viewing blind--- brown with whitish 
rumps--of smaller size--looked like WESTERN SANDPIPERS. (....didn't have 
my spotting scope with me this time around!!!).. Not too many shorebirds 
around this Aug.-Sept.-----have seen many more in other years here. 
Then. too...... the  refuge personal seem to be pumping water in several 
weeks earlier than usual this year.

..............Cheers....Gerald Hamilton
                            Brush Prairie, Wash.
                             gerald at e-z.net
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