Obviously, the big news was the BRISTLE-THIGHED CURLEW that spent a day on Clatsop Beach near the the Sunset Access. Most Oregon records (all but this and one other) come from a single fallout in 1998. The rest of the shorebird migration went off on schedule with higher than average numbers of RED KNOTS and WHIMRELS.
It's always risky trying to divine too much meaning from what we see during migrations, but there appears to have been an westward shift in movements. Several species that do not routinely turn up along the coast in the spring made an appearance this season. Early in the month a TENNESEE WARBLER was seen on Coxcomb Hill in Astoria. EURASIAN COLLARED DOVES were seen at Seaside and Wireless Rd. SAGE THRASHER, LAZULI BUNTING, BREWER'S SPARROW and BLACK-THROATED SPARROW were other more easterly species noted this month.
Posted by mbalame at June 8, 2006 5:37 PM