The East L. Wash. Audubon did their CBC on Sun., Jan 5, which was a
postponement of original Dec. 28 date due to the weather. The weather Sun.
was much better. We have the eastside split into seven different areas. The
results are shown below. The *Gilded Flicker was reported from a backyard
bird count. I would appreciate comments on whether there have been other
sightings of the GIFI in our area. The two Trumpeter Swans were seen in
flooded fields on the north side of the Redmond-Fall City Road about 1/2 mile
east of 308th Ave. SE (DeLorme atlas, p. 80, D1)

Pied-billed Grebe 38
Horned Grebe 1
Red-necked Grebe 1
Western Grebe 8
Double-crested Cormorant 125
Great Blue Heron 29
Trumpeter Swan 4
Canada Goose 2193
Green-winged Teal 23
Mallard 2879
Northern Pintail 146
Northern Shoveler 19
Gadwall 205
Eurasian Wigeon 1
American Wigeon 6552
Ring-necked Duck 92
Greater Scaup 10
Lesser Scaup 15
Common Goldeneye 29
Barrow's Goldeneye 4
Bufflehead 314
Hooded Merganser 74
Common Merganser 82
Ruddy Duck 120
Bald Eagle 13
Northern Harrier 3
Sharp-shinned Hawk 4
Cooper's Hawk 3
Red-tailed Hawk 64
Rough-legged Hawk 1
Kestrel 1
Ring-necked Pheasant 2
American Coot 1711
Killdeer 19
Common Snipe 11
Bonaparte Gull 14
Mew Gull 1488
Ring-billed Gull 242
Herring Gull 307
Western Gull 300
Glaucous-winged Gull 438
Thayer's Gull 4
Rock Dove 455
Mourning Dove 10
Belted Kingfisher 8
Red-breasted Sapsucker 5
Downy Woodpecker 5
Hairy Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker 46
Gilded Flicker 1*
Pileated Woodpecker 4
Steller's Jay 63
Common Raven 3
American Crow 1042
Black-capped Chickadee 121
Chestnut-back. Chickadee 43
Bushtit 157
Red-breasted Nuthatch 14
Brown Creeper 3
Bewick's Wren 23
Winter Wren 8
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 82
Golden-crowned Kinglet 46
American Robin 902
Varied Thrush 12
Cedar Waxwing 72
European Starling 2977
Hutton's Vireo 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 1
Townsend's Warbler 12
Spotted Towhee 55
Fox Sparrow 20
Song Sparrow 150
Lincoln's Sparrow 1
Golden-crowned Sparrow 35
White-crowned Sparrow 23
Dark-eyed Junco 392
Red-winged Blackbird 824
Western Meadowlark 8
Brewer's Blackbird 117
House Finch 243
Pine Siskin 180
American Goldfinch 26
House Sparrow 77

Total Species 86
Total Birds 25892

Unidentified Birds
Gulls 3552
Raptors 3
Sparrows 56

Grand Total 29503

Hugh Jennings
Bellevue, WA