Subject: San Juan Island Trip
Date: Oct 30 18:24:14 1995
From: Bill and Nancy LaFramboise - wlafra at oneworld.owt.com


Before the San Juan report, we'd like to thank Ted Becker and Tracee
Geernaert for the help with directions to Spencer Island. Although the YT
Vireo was not seen, we enjoyed the morning there and will return as it is a
great place. We met several birders. It will be nice to have some sort of
Tweeters patch etc (event though we like the idea of tee-shirts, they would
have been covered by the coats) so we could have met the tweeters in the crowd.

We spent Saturday (10/28) birding San Juan Island. The highlight of our
trip were 2 Rock Sandpipers that were seen with 12 Surfbirds, 2 Black
Turnstones, and 10 Black Oystercatchers. These birds were seen nothwest of
the Cattle Point Lighthouse. We found them by hiking along the rocks, but
they could be seen from the cliff near the lighthouse.

Here is our list, including some other nice finds:

Pacific and Common Loons
Red-necked and Horned grebes
All 3 Cormorants
Great Blue Heron
Red-breasted and Hooded Merganser, Harlequin Duck, Mallard, Bufflehead,
Green-winged Teal, American Wigeon, Surf and WW Scoter.
Bald Eagle, Harrier, Red-tailed & Rough-legged Hawks, 2 PEREGRINE
California Quail
American Coot
Glaucous winged, Mew, Heermann's, Ring-billed and California Gulls
Killdeer, Black Oystercatchers, Surfbirds, Rock Sandpiper, Black Turnstone
Marbled Murrelet, Common Murre, Pigeon Guillemot, Rhinoceros Auklet
Band-tailed pigeon
SHORT EARED OWL 1 (at American Camp)
Belted Kingfisher
Northern Flicker
Crows, Raven
Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Brown Creeper, Red-breasted Nuthatch
Winter and Bewick's Wren
Cedar Waxwing, Northern Shrike
Robin, Hermit Thrush
Ruby and Golden-crowned kinglet
Western Meadowlark
Golden-crowned, White crowned, Fox, Song Sparrows
Rufous-sided towhee
DE Junco
American Goldfinch, House Finch, Pine Siskin

9 River Otter, 2 Red Fox

Bill and Nancy LaFramboise
Richland, WA
wlafra at oneworld.owt.com