Subject: Olympia CBC - Section 8 Counts
Date: Dec 22 18:16:05 1997
From: "Jon. Anderson and Marty Chaney" - festuca at olywa.net


Hi folks,

Thought I'd report what we had in the 'burbs of West Olympia for yesterday's CBC. We had two groups of 3 people out in Area 8, which is the portion between Kaiser Rd and the water (we *don't* get Budd Bay or Capitol Lake....) east of Hwy 101.

We saw 3,077 individuals of 55 species - slightly fewer than last year's 3.121 birds of 62 species. Not too bad. We missed some expected species (Varied Thrush) but picked up a couple good ones.

143 Double crested Cormorant
5 Great Blue Heron
99 Canada Goose (all B.c. moffitti)
7 Domestic Goose
118 Mallard
39 Gadwall
9 American Wigeon
5 Ring-necked Duck
3 Common Goldeneye
17 Bufflehead
4 Hooded Merganser
4 Common Merganser
2 Domestic Duck
1 Bald Eagle Adult
1 Sharp-shinned Hawk
1 Cooper's Hawk
1 Red-tailed Hawk
1 American Coot
2 Killdeer
1 Ring-billed Gull
12 Glaucous-winged Gull
291 GW-type Gull, Olympic, or Puget Sound or whatever
165 Rock Dove
2 W Screech Owl
5 Great Horned Owl
5 Belted Kingfisher (1 male, 2 females, 2 unk)
4 Downy Woodpeckeer
28 Red-shafted Flicker
2 Pileated Woodpecker (1 female)
48 Steller's Jay
25 Scrub Jay
250 Crow
97 Black-capped Chickadee
85 Chestnut-backed Chickadee
35 Bushtit
5 Red-breasted Nuthatch
8 Brown Creeper
13 Bewick's Wren
36 Winter Wren
139 Golden-crowned Kinglet
60 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
211 American Robin
1 NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD (Thanks to Tom Foote)
25 Cedar Waxwing
283 European Starling
1 Hutton's Vireo
1 Townsend's Warbler
2 Audubon's Yellow-rumped Warbler
1 COMMON YELLOWTHROAT (Thanks to Michael Clegg .. this is a one-eyed bird!)
56 Spotted Towhee
17 Fox Sparrow
109 Song Sparrow
73 Golden-crowned Sparrow
149 Oregon Junco
291 House Finch
78 House Sparrow

Yeah, I know, it's not fair to include the feral domestic ducks/geese :-) They wouldn't let me count the pair of Ostrich on Saturday's Gray's Harbor count either......

Here's wishing the best of the Holiday season to all, and hoping for a great 1998 for us and for the birds....

Jon. Anderson
Olympia, Washington
festuca at olywa.net