Hi folks,

Jerry Smith and I spent most of the day wandering around Grays
Harbor - Damon Point and Bowerman Basin, with a stop at Vance
Creek Co. Park near Elma on the way back home to Olympia.
What a beautiful day to be out birding!!

We weren't doing gonzo birding, so missed some pretty common
birds - Chestnut-backed chickadees!! Nuthatches!! Small corms!
Taking it pretty easy we saw the following 63 species:

Common Loon
Red-throated Loon
Pacific Loon
Western Grebe
Horned Grebe
Pied-billed Grebe
Brown Pelican - several dozens
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Coot - Vance Creek ponds
Black Brant
Canada Goose - moffitti, minima and taverneri
Mallard
Pintail
Gadwall
Shoveler
Green-winged Teal
Canvasback - Bowerman pond
Redhead - 1 drake at Vance Creek pond
Greater Scaup - Damon Pt
Lesser Scaup - Vance Creek pond
Ring-necked Duck - Vance Cr.
Ruddy Duck - Bowerman pond
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Common Merganser
Mew Gulls
Ring-billed Gull
Heerman's Gull
Glaucous-winged/Western Gulls - many *very* Western-types
Golden Plover ssp
Black-bellied Plover
Dunlin
Least Sandpiper
N. Harrier
Red-tailed Hawk
Merlin - Great Views! of 2+ females at Damon Point
Rock Dove
Crow
Steller Jay
Red-shafted Flicker
Horned Lark - very bright yellow - E.a. strigata?
In the pickleweed at Damon Pt.
Starling
Robin
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Black-capped Chickadee
Marsh Wren - Bowerman marsh
Bewick's Wren
Winter Wren
Myrtle Yellow-rumped Warbler
Audubon's Y-r Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler - very yellow lutescens type
White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Oregon Junco
Savannah Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Spotted Towhee
Brewer's Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
House Sparrow

Jon. Anderson
Olympia, Washington
festuca at olywa.net