-----Original Message-----
From: Randy Rawluk <brandi at mail.netshop.net>
To: Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Date: May 20, 1998 8:48 PM
Subject: Trip report


>Tweeters
>I spent last weekend birding in Hazelton B.C. with my Bro-inlaw Ray
>Sturney.The highlight of the trip was my first breeding plumage Pacific
Loon
>which was on Ross lake always keeping a wary eye on the resident pair of
>Common Loons and staying to the opposite side of the Lake giving us great
>looks at it's plummage as we walked the trail around the Lake.
>Total species for the weekend 85 and when we returned home there was a pair
>of Cinnamon Teal and three Northern Shovelers on our pond.


Also,
Pacific Loon, Common Loon, Red-necked Grebe, Western Grebe, Canada Goose,
Green-winged Teal, Mallard, Blue-winged Teal, Northern Shoveler, American
Wigeon, Rig-necked Duck, Greater Scaup, Lesser Scaup, Surf Scoter, Common
Goldeneye, Bufflehead, Hooded Merganser, Common Merganser, Osprey, Bald
Eagle, Northern Harrier, Red-tailed Hawk, American Kestrel, Ruffed Grouse,
Sora, Killdeer, Colitary Sandpiper, Spotted Sandpiper, Common Snipe, Herring
Gull, Band-tailed Pigeon, Calliope Hummingbird, Rufous Hummingbird, belted
Kingfisher, red-breasted Sapsucker, Downy Woodpecker, Hairy Woodpecker,
Northern Flicker, Pileated Woodpecker, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Western
Wood-Pewee, Least Flycatcher, Hammond's Flycatcher, Dusky Flycatcher, Tree
Swallow, Violet-green Swallow, Northern Rough-winged Swallow, Steller's Jay,
Black-billed Magpie, American Crow, Common Raven, Black-capped Chickadee,
Red-breasted Nuthatch, Winter Wren, Golden-Crowned Kinglet, Ruby-Crowned
Kinglet, Mountain Bluebird, Hermit Trush, American Robi, Varied Thrush,
European Starling, Solitary Vireo, Warbling Vireo, Orange-crowned Warbler,
Yellow-rumped Warbler, Townsend's Warbler, Northern Waterthrush,
Macgillivray's Waterthrush, Common Yellowthroat, WIlson's Warbler, Western
Tanager, Chipping Sparrow, Savannah Sparrow, Lincoln's Sparrow, Song
Sparrow, White-crowned Sparrow, Rusty Blackbird,Brown-headed Cowbird, Pine
Grosbeak, Purple Finch, Pine Siskin, Evening Grosbeak, House Sparrow.
>Randy Rawluk
>Fort St. James B.C.
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