Hi Tweets,

the Everett Christmas Bird Count on January 5th recorded 121 species, the
same total as last year. Highlights included a lingering Sora near
Marysville, a Harris's Sparrow at the Everett Sewage Lagoons, a Bittern,
15 Black Turnstones and 28 owls of six species. With 6 owl and two rail
species recorded, the counters deserve some sort of gold star for effort
on those tough-to-get birds. Numbers were down from last year across the
board, except for a huge invasion of Robins and Varied Thrushes. The big
Christmas snow drove them in, and they stuck around to be counted a week
later.

A Bobwhite seen count day was dropped from the list due to overwhelming
evidence suggesting it was a recent escape.

Happy Perusing,

Chris Hill,
Compiler
Everett


Red-throated Loon 11
Pacific Loon 13
Common Loon 12
Pied-billed Grebe 24
Horned Grebe 30
Red-necked Grebe 25
Western Grebe 327
Double-crested Cormorant 291
Pelagic Cormorant 9
American Bittern 1
Great Blue Heron 104
Trumpeter Swan 99
Mute Swan 4
Brant 260
Canada Goose 283
Green-winged Teal 334
American Black Duck 2
Mallard 1630
Northern Pintail 186
Northern Shoveler 412
Gadwall 112
Eurasian Wigeon 1
American Wigeon 877
Canvasback 135
Ring-necked Duck 343
Greater Scaup 7
Lesser Scaup 52
Scaup sp 48
Surf Scoter 188
White-winged Scoter 24
Common Goldeneye 69
Barrow's Goldeneye 212
Bufflehead 166
Hooded Merganser 23
Common Merganser 100
Red-breasted Merganser 36
Ruddy Duck 272
Bald Eagle(24 a., 10 i.) 34
Northern Harrier 24
Sharp-shinned Hawk 3
Cooper's Hawk 6
Red-tailed Hawk 62
Rough-legged Hawk 2
American Kestrel 2
Merlin 2
Peregrine Falcon 2
Ruffed Grouse 3
Virginia Rail 3
Sora 1
American Coot 591
Kildeer 46
Greater Yellowlegs 2
Black Turnstone 15
Sanderling 35
Dunlin 326
Long-billed Dowitcher 20
Common Snipe 45
Mew Gull 2192
Ring-billed Gull 190
California Gull 1
Herring Gull 8
Thayer's Gull 5
Western Gull 19
Glaucous-w. x Western Gull 58
Glaucous-winged Gull 473
Gull sp. 471
Common Murre 3
Marbled Murrelet cw
Rhinoceros Auklet 3
Rock Dove 1134
Band-tailed Pigeon 5
Mourning Dove 2
Barn Owl 5
Western Screech-owl 3
Great Horned Owl 9
Barred Owl 1
Short-eared Owl 8
Northern Saw-whet Owl 4
Belted Kingfisher 23
Red-breasted Sapsucker 2
Downy Woodpecker 18
Hairy Woodpecker 7
Northern (Red-sh.) Flicker 69
Pileated Woodpecker 2
Steller's Jay 176
Crow sp. 1070
Common Raven 7
Black-capped Chickadee 197
Chestnut-backed Chickadee 58
Bushtit 59
Red-breasted Nuthatch 11
Brown Creeper 9
Bewick's Wren 43
Winter Wren 39
Marsh Wren 13
Golden-crowned Kinglet 218
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 110
American Robin 3201
Varied Thrush 190
Cedar Waxwing 33
Northern Shrike 1
European Starling 5276
Hutton's Vireo 1
Orange-Crowned Warbler 1
Yellow.-r. Warbler(2M3A5U) 10
Townsend's Warbler 3
Spotted Towhee 226
Fox Sparrow 70
Song Sparrow 606
Lincoln's Sparrow 7
White-crowned Sparrow 25
Harris' Sparrow 1
Golden-crowned Sparrow 64
Dark-eyed (Oregon) Junco 700
Red-winged Blackbird 996
Brewer's Blackbird 402
Brown-headed Cowbird 4
Western Meadowlark 75
Purple Finch 29
House Finch 188
Red Crossbill 4
Pine Siskin 488
American Goldfinch 6
Evening Grosbeak 39
House Sparrow 385

Totals: 121 species and 27,703 individuals