Date: 6/2/26 2:29 pm From: Tim Brennan via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: [Tweeters] Pacific County Birding - May Round-up
Heya Tweets!
I've continued to poke at Pacific County, adding enough birds to get to 169 or 170 species for the year, here at the end of May. Why the +/- 1? Well... I found a picture that may be a Red-naped Sapsucker, or may be impossible to separate from a hybrid. I'm embarrassed that I "found" the picture from May 8th only yesterday. As I was working on a digest-style summary of some small trips in May, I was looking for good pictures to add, and there was a good forehead smack when I saw the bird in question. I see zero evidence of hybridization, but man... with birds I am always ready for the Left Galosh question. "Hybrids will never have any white speckling on their left galosh... a field mark that your photo does not show." It's never actually galoshes, but it is usually details that are just as surprising to me.
It was a great month in the clearcuts - Western Bluebird, MacGillivray's Warbler, and Northern House Wren were all hoped-for birds up there, and all three were found. The House Wren, not an easy Pacific County Bird, was found on a forest road off of Highway 6 where people (including me) have been finding Hermit Warblers with some regularity.
And yeah, I found some shorebirds, but no, I haven't found a Long-billed Curlew - the Largest Shorebird in North America. People keep finding them, and I keep missing them. What a magnificent nemesis after 5 months of poking around.
Pacific County Birding: May Have Snuck in Some Trips; May Have Found Some Birds<https://pacificcountybirding.blogspot.com/2026/06/may-have-snuck-in-some-trips-may-have.html> summarizes three trips, including one that is essentially a non-birding trip in this lovely county. Any thoughts on the sapsucker are welcome - there are a few pics dropped in there. And all apologies for not even seeing the picture until yesterday. Hoping to finish out the year with my rare bird radar in full operation.
