Dear tweetsters,

Did my Green Lake count this morning between 08:00-09:30.
26F/-3C, liitle wind. Lake iced over 60%

Legend: before comma male, after female; asterisk means note at end.

Pied-billed Grebe 11*
Great Blue Heron 1
Canada Goose 123
Domesticated Goose 9
Mallard 11,7
Northern Shoveler 2,5
Gadwall 12,9
Eurasian Wigeon 3,0*
American Wigeon 254,181
Bufflehead 4,3
Common Merganser 4,1
Ruddy Duck 21,24
Domesticated Duck 9
Bald Eagle 1,1*
Merlin 1
American Coot 213
Killdeer 6
Mew Gull 16
Ring-billed Gull 32
California Gull 3
Glaucous-winged hybrid gulls 15
Glaucous-winged Gull 31
Rock Dove 24
Downy Woodpecker 3
Northern Flicker 2
American/Northwestern Crow 54
Black-capped Chickadee 15
Chestnut-backed Chickadee 3
Bushtit 22
Red-breasted Nuthatch 5
Brown Creeper 3
Bewick's Wren 1
Winter Wren 3
Golden-crowned Kinglet 34
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 3
American Robin 6
Varied Thrush 5
Cedar Waxwing 11
European Starling 36
Yellow-rumped Warbler 1
Song Sparrow 7
Red-winged Blackbird 1(!)
Brewer's Blackbird 9
Pine Siskin 20
American Goldfinch 50
House Sparrow 40

Pied-billed Grebe: absolutely sure there were non on the lake yesterday, yet
11 today (compared to 8 last Saturday). I guess they agree with the
long-term forecast the freezing won't last...

Eurasian Wigeon: one male hybrid Eurasian x American in addition to the 3
regular Eurasian males

Bald Eagles: the adult male-subadult female reported on yesterday, sitting
in the top of the trees on the island.

Merry Christmas all!
Martin Muller, Seattle
MartinMuller at email.msn.com