Hello Tweeers,
Try to find some Gull species in Gorst today, but i did not check the Tide
out befor i left. So it was realy high tide, even comming back from Port
Gamble, this is where i ended up. Birding was verry rewarding in Port
Gamble, after nothing in Point NO Point.The highlight was 13 Oldsquaw,and40
Greater Scaup and 1 real dark Western Gull.I only birded this smal town
only once before, and was realy surprised to find so many nice species of
birds there in this one hour. Here are the birds i saw:
Common Loon
Pacific Loon
Red-throated Loon
Western Grebes
Red-necked Grebes
Horned Grebes
Double-crested Cormorant
Brandt's Cormorant
Canada Goose
Mallard
American Wigeon
Greater Scaup 40
Surf SCOTER
Common Goldeneye
Buffelhead
Common Merganser
Red-brested Merganser
American Coot
Greater Yellowlegs (heard)
Ring-billed Gull
Mew Gull
California Gull
Thayers Gull
Western Gull 1
Gaucous-winged Gull
Pigeon Gullemot
Rhinoceros Auklet
Cooper's Hawk
Merlin
Belted Kingfisher
Northern FLicker
Steller's Jay
American Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Bushtit 6
Bewick's Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Golden -crowned Kinglet
Varied Thrush
American Robin 50
Northern Shrike
Cedar Waxwing
European Starling 2000
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle 3
Townsend's Warbler
Spotted Towhee
Song Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
White-crowned Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
American Goldfinches
SALSBURY POINT:
Marbled Murrelet 5
KITSAP MEMOREAL STATE PARK
Brant 30
Red Crossbill
Ruth Sullivan