Tweets,
This year was the 3rd Port Gamble CBC, 2nd since its resurrection last
year. We totaled 119 species on Count day with Brown Pelican and Gadwall
being count week birds. Notable misses were Harlequin Duck, California
Gull and Saw-whet Owl. With the wind being so high we almost missed a
couple of seabirds: Black Scoter-1, Rhino Auklet:1, Anceint Murrelet:3.
Notable highlights were Rock Sandpiper near Foulweather bluff, Trumpeter
Swans near Port Ludlow, Dipper near Suquamish, 8 Greater-white fronted
Goose near Miller Bay, 6 Evening Grosbeak and 26 Common Snipe. Thankyou to
all of the participants who braved the bonechilling wind and still managed
to bring in some good birds.

Totals:
Individuals: 14,647
Participants:24
Parties:9-10
Feeder Watchers:10
Temp:24-33 degrees F
Wind:N/NW 20-40 mph
snow falling late in the day
Owling hours:11:30
Owling car miles:50.7
Owling foot miles:2.25
Non-owling:
Hrs by car:42:25
Hrs. by foot:30:45
miles by car:312.9
miles by foot:27.5

Red-throated Loon:11
Pacific Loon:85
Common Loon:37
Pied-billed Grebe:8
Horned Grebe:133
Eared Grebe:4
Western Grebe:349
Red-necked Grebe:41
Double-crested Cormorant:96
Brandt's Cormorant:34
Pelagic Cormorant:64
Cormorant sp:37
**Brown Pelican:CW
Great-blue Heron:33
Trumpeter Swan:3
Gr. White-fronted Goose:8
Brant:65
Canada Goose:61 (3 small forms, not cackling)
Wood Duck:14
Green-winged Teal:68
Mallard:523
Northern Pintail:26
Gadwall:CW
Eurasian Wigeon:7
American Wigeon:1659
Ring-necked Duck:13
Greater Scaup:160
Lesser Scaup:14
scaup sp:18
Oldsquaw:7
Black Scoter:1
Surf Scoter:334
White-winged Scoter:308
scoter sp:10
Common Goldeneye:250
Barrow's Goldeneye:40
Bufflehead:382
Hooded Merganser:19
Common Merganser:1
Red-breasted Merganser:129
duck sp:2
Bald Eagle-adult:19
-imm:7
-unknown:1
Sharp-shinned Hawk:2
Cooper's Hawk:1
accipter sp:1
Red-tailed Hawk:10
Merlin:2
American Kestrel:1
Ring-necked Pheasant:7
Ruffed Grouse:1
California Quail:1
Virginia Rail:1
American Coot:1
Killdeer:72
Greater Yellowlegs:13
Black Turnstone:47
Surfbird:5
**Rock Sandpiper:1
Sanderling:69
Dunlin:111
Long-billed Dowitcher:1
Common Snipe:28
Bonapartes Gull:58
Mew Gull:347
Ring-billed Gull:8
Herring Gull:3
Thayer's Gull:2
Western Gull:3
Glacous-winged Gull:342
GWxW Gull:166
Gull sp:98
Common Murre:80
Pigeon Guillemont:22
Marbled Murrelet:13
Ancient Murrelet:3
Rhinocerous Auklet:1
alcid sp:2
Rock Dove:117
Band-tailed Pigeon:4
Mourning Dove:47
Western-screech Owl:1
Great-horned Owl:1
Barred Owl:1
Belted Kingfisher:12
Red-breasted Sapsucker:4
Downy Woodpecker:14
Hairy Woodpecker:10
Northern Flicker-Red-shafted:29
-yellow shafted:2
-hybrid:1
-unknown:4
Pileated Woodpecker:4
woodpecker sp:1
Steller's Jay:100
Crow Sp:2209
Common Raven:12
Black-capped Chickadee:138
Chesnut-backed Chickadee:158
Bushtit:57
Red-breasted Nuthatch:21
Brown Creeper:11
Bewick's Wren:14
Winter Wren:97
Marsh Wren:5
American Dipper:1
Golden-crowned Kinglet:436
Ruby-crowned Kinglet:94
Hermit Thrush:1
American Robin:398
Varied Thrush:177
Cedar Waxwing:4
Northern Shrike:1
European Starling:1299
Hutton's Vireo:8
Orange-crowned Warbler:1
Yellow-rumped Warbler-Audubon:2
Townsends Warbler:3
Spotted Towhee:147
Savannah Sparrow:1
Fox Sparrow:95
Song Sparrow:184
Lincoln's Sparrow:2
Golden-crowned Sparrow:30
White-crowned Sparrow:17
sparrow sp:5
Dark-eyed Junco-oregon:738
Dark-eyed Junco-slate-colored:2
Red-winged Blackbird:50
Brewer's Blackbird:55
Purple Finch:27
House Finch:230
Red Crossbill:16
Pine Siskin:857
Evening Grosbeak:6
finch sp:10
House Sparrow:71

Hope everybody has a merry christmas, I can just imagine what we are all
dreaming of seeing this weekend on the CBC's!

Scott Downes
sdownes at u.washington.edu
Seattle WA

"Birds don't read bird books. (That's why they are seen doing things they
are not supposed to do)." -Mary Wood