On November 23, six of us took a field trip led by Darryl Thompson from
Pilchuck Audubon Society. We took the trip described on pg 60 of Wahl &
Paulson's "A Guide To Bird Finding In Washington". There were tremendous
amounts of waterbirds to view. We had so much fun we can't wait to do page
61!

Birds seen/heard:
1. Red-throated Loon
2. Pacific Loon
3. Common Loon
4. Horned Grebe
5. Red-necked Grebe
6. Eared Grebe
7. Western Grebe
8. American White Pelican (1)
9. Double-crested Cormorant
10. Pelagic Cormorant
11. Great Blue Heron
12. Canada Goose
13. Trumpeter Swan
14. Eurasian Wigeon
15. American Wigeon
16. Mallard
17. Northern Pintail
18. Green-winged Teal
19. Redhead - 1 in the water near the north parking lot at Birch Bay St. Park
20. Greater Scaup
21. Lesser Scaup
22. Harlequin Duck
23. Surf Scoter
24. White-winged Scoter
25. Black Scoter
26. Oldsquaw
27. Bufflehead
28. Common Goldeneye
29. Barrow's Goldeneye
30. Red-breasted merganser
31. Bald Eagles
32. Cooper's Hawk
33. Red-tailed Hawks
34. Ring-necked Pheasant
35. American Golden-Plover (1)
36. Killdeer
37. Greater Yellowlegs
38. Ruddy Turnstone
39. Black Turnstone
40. Surfbird (2)
41. Western Sandpiper
42. Dunlin
43. Common Snipe
44. Bonaparte's Gull
45. Heermann's Gull
46. Mew Gull
47. Ring-billed Gull
48. California Gull
49. Glaucous-winged Gull
50. Common Murre (1)
51. Rock Dove
52. Belted Kingfisher
53. Northern Flicker
54. Hutton's Vireo - heard only
55. Steller's Jay
56. American Crow
57. Common Raven
58. Tree Swallow - 1 actively feeding over north parking lot area at
Birch Bay State Park
59. Black-capped Chickadee
60. Bushtit
61. Red-breasted Nuthatch
62. Golden-crowned Kinglet
63. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
64. American Robin
65. European Starling
66. Spotted Towhee
67. Fox Sparrow
68. Song Sparrow
69. White-crowned Sparrow
70. Brewer's Blackbird
71. House Finch
72. House Sparrow

(*v*)Donna Ferrill
brdr1 at aol.com
Mukilteo/Cle Elum, WA