[obol] A few shorebirds moving- Coos Co. 4/28/08

[Tim Rodenkirk]

Drizzle/light rain and a breeze from the SW made a
quick end to any attempt at point counts at New River
in SW Coos this morning.  However, unlike yesterday,
there was a noticeable movement of shorebirds.  Still
not big numbers though with probably around
1,000/hr.-a nice mixture of peeps, SB Dowitchers,
Whimbrel, yellowlegs, and BB Plovers. Most birds were
flying fairly high up, not low along the river like
they seem to do when the weather is sunny. Made a very
quick check at Bandon Marsh around 8AM with the
following approximate numbers:

Peeps (mostly Western/Least Sandpipers with SP Plovers
for added flavor)- 700
Dunlin- 500
dowitchers- 50 (probably mostly SB's, at least that's
what I was hearing)
Black Turnstones- 30
Greater Yellowlegs- around a dozen
and a few each of:
Whimbrel
BB Plover
Ruddy Turnstone

I saw two crows harassing a Whimbrel which finally
made a frightening screaming noise which cooled the
crows down considerably!  Also, saw another crow
dive-bombing yellowlegs.

Es todo,
Tim R
Coos Bay




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