The results of the 99th Christmas Bird Count season (American
Birds) arrived today with Sandhill Cranes on the cover.

Ruth Sullivan has two skylark pictures published in the account
from Sequim-Dungeness.

For those with a competetive streak, the following are national
high counts (I think I got them all) from Oregon and Washington.
I think it may have been an invasion year for Gyr's last winter...

Arctic Loon 1 Wahkiakum WA/OR
Red-necked Grebe 235 Everett WA
Fork-tailed Storm-petrel 1 Grays Harbor WA
Trumpeter Swan 965 Padilla Bay WA
Sharp-shinned Hawk 36 Seattle WA
Gyrfalcon 1 Grand Coulee,Leadbetter Point,Olympia,
Padilla Bay,Sequim-Dungeness,Wenatchee
Ruffed Grouse 74 Toppenish WA
Black Turnstone 320 Oak Harbor WA
Sanderling 4205 Florence OR
Dunlin 22840 Skagit Bay WA
Mew Gull 2531 Everett WA
Glaucous-winged Gull 6108 Olympia WA
Common Murre 2025 Coquille Valley OR
Ancient Murrelet 160 Sequim-Dungeness WA
Red-breasted Sapsucker 30 Airlie OR
Bewick's Wren 227 Seattle WA
Winter Wren 266 Olympia WA
Golden-crowned Kinglet 1585 Olympia WA
Townsend's Solitaire 237 Adel OR
Varied Thrush 822 Florence OR
Oregon Junco 2900 Walla Walla WA
Brambling 1 Portland OR (shared with Homer AK)
Pine Siskin 1082 Tacoma WA
--
Mike Patterson The common view of science is that it is a sort of machine
Astoria, OR for increasing the race's store of dependable facts.
mpatters at oregonvos.net It is that only in part; in even larger part
it is a machine for upsetting undependable facts.

----- H.L.Mencken
http://www.pacifier.com/~mpatters/bird/bird.html