Hi folks,

Finally got back home and to a computer, and thought I'd share my
sightings in the Seahurst (Burien, King Co) area over the Christmas
break. While I didn't do any hard-core birding, I saw the following few
species from 22-27 December 1998 while enjoying the holiday cheer
with relatives.

The most amazing thing, to me, was seeing Anna's Hummingbirds when
the local temperatures were in the low 20s!! Feeling sorry for them, I
found a feeder, filled it, and set it up at my in-laws' about the time the
temperatures soared into the 40s, and the feeder was immediately used
by an adult male and another (green...) bird. How low can these birds
go? Do they go into torpor when the days/nights get into the 'teens?

Common Loon
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Pigeon Guillemot - all winter plumage
Glaucous-winged Gull (and the many sundry hybrids...)
Mew Gull
Killdeer
Spotted Sandpiper - 1 on beach N of 3 Tree Point
Great Blue Heron
Canada Goose - 51 moffitti flying toward Des Moines
Mallard
Harlequin Duck - 3 males, 1 female along beach N of 3 Tree Pt
Common Goldeneye
Barrow's Goldeneye
Red-breasted Merganser
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Bald Eagle
Red-tailed Hawk
Rock Dove
Anna's Hummingbirds
Red-breasted Sapsucker
Red-shafted Flicker
Crow
Steller's Jay
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Black-capped Chickadee
Bushtit
Winter Wren
Bewick's Wren
Robin
Hermit Thrush
Oregon Junco
Song Sparrow
House Finch
Pine Siskin
House Sparrow
Starling

Jon. Anderson
Olympia, Washington
festuca at olywa.net