<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I have been watching two dogs by myself for a few days. Has limited birding/chasing (read Little Gull here). Decided to take them to the coast yesterday where they could enjoy the beach and I could bird. South of Westport only. Really good day and the dogs had a blast.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">4 geese species at the Bishop Athletic Complex south of Aberdeen and again in Tokeland.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Very windy but Bar Tailed Godwit remains at the Tokeland Marina with 150+ Marbled Godwits and a dozen or so Willets. Western Grebes in the bay but too windy to search long for Clark's Grebe. A single Eared Grebe there.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">At Graveyard Spit/Fisher Avenue - Western SP, Dunlin, Sanderlings, Black Bellied Plovers, a Snowy Plover and one Red Knot. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Open Beach up and down from Grayland - lots of birds: massive groups of Dunlin - one with at least 3000 maybe more - 5000+ 150" Black Bellied Plovers, 250 Least Sandpipers, 8 Semipalmated Plovers, 30 Western Sandpipers, 175+ Sanderlings, 8 American Pipits and a Lapland Longspur. Very windy again and the Least Sandpipers and Semipalmated were taking shelter in the detritus on the beach. Pure Western Gulls along the whole beach. The Dunlin were amazing!!</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Doggies slept the whole way home. 2 Great Egrets visible from road grazing in field near Brady.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Blair Bernson</div></div></body></html>