Subject: Spencer Island (Everett)
Date: Dec 29 16:39:03 1999
From: Nightwings406 at aol.com - Nightwings406 at aol.com


A group of us met a Langus Park for a walk around the dike area of Spencer
Island and the Sewage Treatment ponds. The walk was led by Darryl Thompson
from the Pilchuck Audubon Society.

Birds seen/heard:
1. Pied-billed Grebe
2. Western Grebe
3. Double-crested Cormorant
4. Great Blue Heron
5. Snow Goose (1 in with a flock of Canada's)
6. Gadwall
7. American Wigeon
8. Mallard
9. Northern Shoveler
10. Northern Pintail
11. Green-winged Teal
12. Greater Scaup
13. Lesser Scaup
14. Bufflehead
15. Hooded Merganser
16. Common Merganser
17. Ruddy Duck
18. Bald Eagle
19. Northern Harrier
20. Cooper's Hawk
21. Red-tailed Hawk
22. Rough-legged Hawk
23. Merlin
24. Peregrine Falcon
25. Virginia Rail (heard only)
26. American Coot
27. Dunlin
28. Common Snipe
29. Bonaparte's Gull
30. Mew Gull
31. Ring-billed Gull
32. California Gull
33. Glaucous-winged Gull
34. Rock Dove
35. Belted Kingfisher
36. Downy Woodpecker
37. Hairy Woodpecker
38. Northern Flicker
39. Pileated Woodpecker
40. American Crow
41. Black-capped Chickadee
42. Winter Wren
43. Marsh Wren
44. Golden-crowned Kinglet
45. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
46. American Robin
47. European Starling
48. Spotted Towhee
49. Fox Sparrow
50. Song Sparrow
51. Golden-crowned Sparrow
52. Red-winged Blackbird
53. Brewer's Blackbird
54. House finch
55. Pine Siskin
56. American Goldfinch

(*v*)Donna Ferrill
nightwings406 at aol.com
Mukilteo/Cle Elum, WA