Hi folks,

Here are our counts from Area 8 (suburban west Olympia) of the Olympia =
CBC yesterday the 22nd. I had 10 people in my corner of the count, =
which included the area from Hwy 101 north, between Kaiser Road and West =
Bay Drive. They didn't give me any water area along Budd Bay or Capitol =
Lake, but we did have Percival Cove and Grass Lake for some water birds. =
There were 10 people wandering the back-yards and one person watching =
her feeder (where our GOOD BIRD was found). We had a sunny, 'warm' =
morning, but it clouded over by noon and cooled off a few degrees - the =
birds were pretty stingy about showing themselves in the afternoon, and =
it was hard to even get them to respond to 'pishing'.

I didn't get the total counts during the count-down dinner last night, =
but the CBC total was somewhere in the vicinity of 130 species. Few =
owls were seen (they got 2 Snowys at Nisqually NWR, but no one had Great =
Horned, Screech, Pygmy, Saw-whet, etc through the day!), so I walked the =
Garfield Trail in the moonlight and picked up a Screech Owl calling just =
before the rain started coming down at 8PM.

Double-crested Cormorant 379 - mostly at the Percival Cove roost
Great Blue Heron 8
Swan Species 15
Wood Duck 3
Mallard 108
Gadwall 4
Ring-necked Duck 1
Common Goldeneye 1
Bufflehead 17
Hooded Merganser 13
Domestic Goose 6 At Percival Cove
Bald Eagle - Adult 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk 2
Cooper's Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 4
California Quail 9
Ring-necked Pheasant 2
Virginia Rail 1
Dunlin 1 Fly-over
Ring-billed Gull 3
Glaucous-winged Gull 314
Gull species 258 Presumed mostly G-w or G-w hybrids
Rock Dove 130
W Screech Owl 1
Belted Kingfisher 3
Red-breasted Sapsucker 2
Downy Woodpecker 4
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Red-shafted Flicker 23
Yellow-shafted Flicker 1
Pileated Woodpecker 3
Steller's Jay 88
Scrub Jay 17
American Crow 430
Black-capped Chickadee 139
Chestnut-backed Chickadee 90
MOUNTAIN CHICKADEE 1 Corner of Rogers & Conger NW
Red-breasted Nuthatch 14
Brown Creeper 2
Bewick's Wren 23
Winter Wren 21
Golden-crowned Kinglet 261
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 73
American Robin 219
Varied Thrush 33
European Starling 477
Hutton's Vireo 1
Townsend's Warbler 4
Audubon's Y-rumped Warbler 1
Orange-crowned Warbler 1
Spotted Towhee 46
Fox Sparrow 27
Song Sparrow 58
Golden-crowned Sparrow 43
Oregon Junco 404
Red-winged Blackbird 5
Purple Finch 2
House Finch 76
Pine Siskin 228
American Goldfinch 24
Evening Grosbeak 8
House Sparrow 125

62 Species (plus one subspecies) - 3,110 individuals

Many thanks to those who helped, including Mark Gray, Debby & Vern =
Stelter, Marijo Loftis, Mike Clegg, Jim Norwalk of Olympia/Lacey, Janet =
Strong of McCleary and Phil and Linda Aldrich of Ballard. Janet Partlow =
maintained a feeder watch, it was she who chummed-in the Mtn Chickadee, =
took pictures of it, and told Mark and me about it so that we could find =
it (at her neighbor's feeder) and get a good view.. A good time was had =
by all, and the Black Hills Audubon put on a great Chili Feed for =
participants following the count.

Jon. Anderson
Olympia, Washington
festuca at olywa.net