Tweets,
Hopefully this is long report will not inconvience anybody. The following
is the totals of the April WOS fieldtrip led by myself and Jim Flynn to
Ocean Shores.
Places covered:
Bowerman Basin & Hoquaim Sewage Ponds
Damon Point
Ocean Shores Game Range
Ocean City St. Park
Bills Spit
Pt. Brown Jetty

Red-throated Loon:2
Pacific Loon:5-10
Common Loon:15-20
Horned Grebe:3
Western Grebe:25+
Sooty Shearwater:1
Double-crested Cormorant:1
Brandts Cormorant:6
Pelagic Cormorant:10-12
Great-blue Heron:3-4
Green Heron:1
Greater-white fronted Goose:400 (this was done acturately, so we were not
over estimating)This might be highest spring count? Count
was taken on Sunday morning, assuming similar amount for
Saturday, but we only estimated on Sat.
Snow Goose:1
Brant:~40
Canada Goose:~250
Green-winged Teal:2
Mallard:12+
N.Pintail:3
N.Shoveler:50+
Gadwall:~12
American Wigeon:1
Canvasback:6
Ring-necked Duck:2-3
Greater Scaup: 10-12
Lesser Scaup: 1
Black Scoter:6
Surf Scoter:25-30
White-winged Scoter:8-10
Bufflehead:25-30
Red-breasted Merganser:4
N.Harrier:1
Peregrine Falcon: 1 imm. Hoquaim SP
Black-bellied Plover:125-130
Semipalmated Plover:~75
Killdeer:2
Greater Yellowlegs: ~75
Whimbrel:1
Marbled Godwit:25-30
Red Knot: ~200
Sanderling: ~75
Western Sandpiper: ~80,000
Least Sandpiper: 25-30
Dunlin: ~25,000
Short-billed Dowitcher: ~3000
Bonapartes Gull: 4
Mew Gull: 20-25
Ring-billed Gull: 20-30
California Gull:1
Western Gull: 40-50
G.W. Gull: 15-20
Caspian Tern: ~100
Common Murre: 1
Pigeon Guillemont: 3
Rufous Hummingbird: 5-10
Tree Swallow: 50-75
V.G. Swallow: 15-20
N. Rough-winged Swallow: 20-30
Cliff Swallow: 3-4
Barn Swallow: 30-50
Crow Species: 50-100
B.C. Chickadee: 2-3
C.B. Chickadee: 4-5
Bushtit: 2
Bewicks Wren: 2-3
Winter Wren: 1
Marsh Wren: 8-10
American Robin: 40-50
Varied Thrush: 2
European Starling: 100+
Orange-crowned Warbler: 6+
Yellow-rumped Warbler:1
Black-throated Gray Warbler:1
Common Yellowthroat: ~5
Savannah Sparrow: 20-25
Song Sparrow: ~10
G.C. Sparrow: 6
W.C. Sparrow: ~13
Dark-eyed Junco:1
Red-winged Blackbird:~20
Brown-headed Cowbird:1
Purple Finch:3
House Finch:6+
Pine Siskin:1-2
American Goldfinch:~2
House Sparrow: 12+

Today Sunday we made a second stop at the Pt. Brown jetty, because we had
no rock shorebirds yesterday, totals were:
Ruddy Turnstone:4(3 in breeding plumage)
Rock Sandpiper:2(1 in breeding plumage)
Surfbird:~30
Black Turnstone:~12

FIELDTRIP TOTAL WAS 85 SPECIES ON SATURDAY, WEEKEND TOTAL WAS 105.

Scott Downes
sdownes at u.washington.edu
Seattle WA