[Tweeters] Tulalip rock sandpiper

[Louise via Tweeters]

I got to Tulalip marina just after 9am and found the rock sandpiper within
10 minutes, on the log boom nearest to shore. The ruddy turnstone was also
there. I missed the rock sandpiper on my first scope pass - I think it was
on the other side of the log, because after I found it, it was moving back
and forth and intermittently going out of view. As a bonus, the Everett
area was dry with glimpses of sun, unlike Kirkland.

Crazily enough, after 17 years of birding in WA, this was a life bird for
me. I don't know how many times I went out to Ocean Shores and Westport,
scoping the jetty and marina with no luck. I went there on WOS and Audubon
trips with multiple sets of eyes scoping and nobody saw one. I'll admit
that in more recent years my enthusiasm to keep making the 3.5 hour drive
to stand in the wind looking and failing had waned... I missed the one day
wonder at Alki a year or two ago. I chased the Whidbey Island bird and
missed it - it was seen briefly on the day I looked, in a spot I had
checked several times through the day and found birdless.

One more crossed off the list of birds that are always in WA that I still
need to find! I need to make another serious hunt for the boreal chickadee
at some point...

Thank you so much to Mark Walton, who replied to my request for information
on the details of where and when to look. You were spot on!

Louise Rutter
Kirkland
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