Date: 8/21/26 1:53 pm From: Dennis Paulson via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: [Tweeters] White Wagtail
I’m not sure I’ve seen the White Wagtail that has been at Neah Bay for quite a while mentioned on tweeters, and I thought there might be some people who were interested but who weren’t on eBird or one of the rare bird apps.
This is a wonderful bird, worth looking for if you like to see different birds. It’s really different from any others of our regularly occurring bird species, with beautiful black, gray and white plumage and frenetic tail-pumping behavior. It is a vagrant from Alaska or Siberia but seems to be making its home at Neah Bay, right next to the Warmhouse Restaurant.
We saw it there on 8/19, foraging in the intertidal just to the west of the restaurant. It flew away when a crow scared it, then was back in 10 minutes. Again, a crow actually chased it away, but it returned while we were eating lunch in the restaurant, foraging right below our window! We hadn’t brought our cameras to lunch, but we took some cell phone photos of it then. Quite a wonderful experience.
