Past 2 days in whatcom county‏ Ken Lane 9/20/13

Hey whatcom birders, 

Fanter and I have been out birding a few spots the past couple days.

Yesterday early at sandy point the rock wren made an appearance and we found 2 surf birds amongst the black turnstones. No longspur. The afternoon we spent at lumni flats. We had 9 pectoral sandpipers with 40 or so dowitchers and nice looks at a bittern. 

today we started at Mt Baker.

Sharp-shinned hawk 2

coopers 3

red-tailed hawk 13

osprey 2

kestrel 1

raven 5

gray-crowned rosy finch 50

horned lark 12

red crossbill 42

band-tailed pigeon 11 

Then we hit the afternoon tide at semiahmoo found the pacific-golden plover in the huge plover flock along with 2 short-billed dowitchers, 2 dunlin and 2 least sandpipers. 

Thanks for all the great posts. Good birding, Ken Lane