55 species is not too many??!! How many do you usually see?

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> From: Jon. Anderson and Marty Chaney <festuca at olywa.net>
> To: 'tweeters at u.washington.edu'
> Subject: Elma Birds, 3 Dec.
> Date: Wednesday, December 03, 1997 1:07 PM
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I had the opportunity to spend the afternoon walking around the Wash.
Dept. of Fish and Wildlife
> lands near Elma. I also scoped the Vance Creek County Park ponds, near
the airport along
> Wenzel Slough Road. Another of our usual western Washington beautiful,
sunny, warm
> December afternoons!
>
> For all the wonderful weather, I didn't see a whole lot of different
species. However, any day
> spent birding in the winter sunshine is well worth the effort. I saw:
>
> Double-crested Cormorant
> Pied-billed Grebe
> California Gull
> Mew Gull
> Glaucous-winged Gull
> "Olympic Gull"
> Killdeer
> Snipe
> Domestic Duck
> Mallard
> Pintail
> American Wigeon
> Green-winged Teal
> Shoveller
> Ring-necked Duck
> Lesser Scaup
> Greater Scaup (the scaup were side-by-side, made ID a LOT easier....)
> Bufflehead
> Common Goldeneye
> Ruddy Duck
> Hooded Merganser
> Common Merg.
> Coot (lots)
> Red-tailed Hawk
> Sharp-shinned Hawk
> N Harrier
> Kestrel
> Great Blue Heron
> Am. Bittern
> Mourning Dove
> Rock Dove
> Kingfisher
> Red-shafted Flicker
> Red-breasted Sapsucker
> Downy Woodpecker
> Steller's Jay
> Crow
> Black-capped Chickadee
> Chestnut-backed Chickadee
> Bushtit
> Bewick's Wren
> Winter Wren
> Starling
> Yellow-rumped Warbler
> Red-winged Blackbird
> Brewers Blackbird
> Golden-crowned Kinglet
> Ruby-crowned Kinglet
> Robin
> Golden-crowned Sparrow
> Song Sparrow
> Fox Sparrow
> Oregon Junco
> House Finch
> Spotted Towhee
>
> "Microtus" vole (in the talons of the Red-tailed Hawk)
> Shrew sp.
> Chickaree
> Coyote
> "Beaver Sticks"
>
> Jon. Anderson
> Olympia, Washington
> festuca at olywa.net