Hi Tweets,

The Everett, WA, CBC in brief:

Weather was a bit blustery, with light rain in the afternoon.
118 species, three below our recent norm.
33,831 individuals.

Highlights included a REDHEAD in Everett and 2 LONG-EARED OWLS in
Marysville. Eight species of shorebird were an exceptional total for us
(KILDEER, BB PLOVER, SNIPE, DOWITCHER, YELLOWLEGS, DUNLIN, SANDERLING AND
*160* W. SANDPIPER).

Duck numbers were high, all three blackbird species were in very high
numbers. We set a count record for RB SAPSUCKER with seven, but otherwise
dickeybird numbers were down fairly drastically, maybe 30% on average.
It's not clear to me how much of that broad downturn was related to count
day weather. Some species were obviously just not around in normal
numbers (RB Nuthatch, 1 seen, we're normally in double digits, CB
Chickadee, 11 seen, normally closer to 100). But the across the board
"declines" in about 15 more species of small songbird may have been due to
the birds staying under cover. Or perhaps it was due to the hard freeze
we experienced in early December. I'd be interested to hear from other
Puget Trough compilers about this - did you note any downturn in sparrows,
chickadees, wrens, kinglets and woodpeckers? Or did we just pick a slow
day to go birding?

Complete list follows (asterisks mark unusal species and unusually high
counts):


Species Count

Red-throated Loon 15
Pacific Loon 1
Common Loon 17
Pied-billed Grebe 26
Horned Grebe 70
Red-necked Grebe *235*
Western Grebe 192
Double-cr. Cormorant 204
Brandt's Cormorant 1
Pelagic Cormorant 24
American Bittern 2
Great Blue Heron 62
Trumpeter Swan 7
Mute Swan 6
Swan sp. 3
Brant 237
Canada Goose 461
Duck, sp. 1412
Green-winged Teal 1574
Am. Black Duck x Mallard cw
Mallard 2397
Northern Pintail 1565
Northern Shoveler 230
Gadwall 152
American Wigeon 993
Canvasback 199
*Redhead* *1*
Ring-necked Duck 454
Lesser Scaup 98
Scaup sp 66
Oldsquaw *3*
Black Scoter *64*
Surf Scoter 115
White-winged Scoter 95
Common Goldeneye *233*
Barrow's Goldeneye 261
Bufflehead 277
Hooded Merganser *102*
Common Merganser 87
Red-breasted Merganser 56
Ruddy Duck 97
Bald Eagle (adult) 26
Bald Eagle (im) 16
Northern Harrier 8
Sharp-shinned Hawk 3
Cooper's Hawk 5
Red-tailed Hawk 54
Rough-legged Hawk 1
American Kestrel 1
Merlin 5
Peregrine Falcon 3
Ruffed Grouse 2
Virginia Rail 21
American Coot 597
Shorebird, sp. 90
Black-bellied Plover 1
Kildeer 18
Western Sandpiper 160
Yellowlegs, sp. 8
Sanderling 4
Dunlin 4604
Dowitcher, sp. 44
Common Snipe 13
Bonaparte's Gull 1
Mew Gull 2531
Ring-billed Gull 197
Thayer's Gull 4
Western Gull 17
Gl-w. x Western Gull 213
Glaucous-winged Gull 1415
Gull sp. 1320
Common Murre 2
Rhinoceros Auklet 2
Rock Dove 851
Band-tailed Pigeon 8
Mourning Dove 1
Barn Owl 7
Great Horned Owl 6
*Long-eared Owl* *2*
Short-eared Owl 1
Northern Saw-whet Owl 5
Belted Kingfisher 14
Red-breasted Sapsucker *7*
Downy Woodpecker 21
Hairy Woodpecker 6
Northern Flicker 57
Pileated Woodpecker 2
Steller's Jay 71
Crow sp. 1434
Common Raven 3
Black-capped Chickadee 126
Chestnut-backed Chickadee 11 (low)
Bushtit 113
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1 (low)
Brown Creeper 7
Bewick's Wren 31
Winter Wren 51
Marsh Wren 36
Golden-crowned Kinglet 184
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 78
Hermit Thrush 1
American Robin 303
Varied Thrush 65
Northern Shrike 1
European Starling 2951
Hutton's Vireo 1
Orange-Crowned Warbler 1
Townsend's Warbler 2
Spotted Towhee 132
Savannah Sparrow 1
Fox Sparrow 60
Song Sparrow 503
Lincoln's Sparrow 12
Golden-crowned Sparrow 57
White-crowned Sparrow 13
Dark-eyed (Oregon) Junco 367
Red-winged Blackbird 897
Brewer's Blackbird *938*
Brown-headed Cowbird *15*
Western Meadowlark 4
Purple Finch 5
House Finch 218
Pine Siskin 382
American Goldfinch 18
Evening Grosbeak 17
House Sparrow 253

Total Species (+ add'l forms) 118+2
Total Individuals 33831