Started to do a shorebird survey for the World Shorebird count but will
return this pm and do the whole thing to be thorough. I didn’t have time
to get to all the birds in the distance, with 1 or more flocks of peeps
etc. Did see:
1 Black-necked Stilt
3 American Avocets
4 LB Dowitchers
1 Semipalmated Plover
6 Greater Yellowlegs
7 Lesser Yellowlegs
many Killdeer
40 or more White-faced Ibis, will try to get closer this pm to scan
faces and eyes.

Also enjoyed
5 American White Pelicans
60 + Franklin’s Gulls – and I’ll scan carefully this pm as a few reports
of Sabine’s Gulls have come from Oregon today
Lots of Ring-bills, 5+ California Gulls
etc.
Sunflowers have ripening seeds with Savannah Sparrows and blackbirds
feasting on them.
Judy Meredith, temporarily in Boise, jmeredit@bendnet.com