Date: 3/26/26 2:43 pm From: Tim Brennan via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: [Tweeters] Pacific County Birding - March trip
Hey Tweets!
I made a run down to Pacific County Sun-Tuesday, adding a baker's-dozen birds to the year list for the county. 129 species with migration about to land. Most of the new birds were your basic early spring arrivals: Rufous Hummingbirds, Band-tailed Pigeons, Violet-Green Swallows, and Turkey Vultures were nearly everywhere. Western Bluebird was probably the best find - missed them at Lynn Point Road, where they have been reported all spring, but I ended up following up on a report from the Riekkola Unit of Willapa Bay NWR, and found one there. And shovelers! So many ducks appear to shun the salty water down in Pacific County, so coming across three Northern Shovelers was a happy moment indeed.
Lots of mammals on the trip - by the end, this included deer, river otter, beaver, elk, harbor porpoise, harbor seals, Douglas and Eastern Gray Squirrel, Townsend's Chipmunk, and a racoon, traipsing around in the mud of Willapa Bay at low tide. I also got a chance to watch surfers taking advantage of waves at Washaway Beach - a spot that... used to be (??) the fastest eroding point on the West Coast? Got into a discussion about this with one of the long-time surfers, and found some hopeful stories about recovery there as I researched it.
