On Oct 27th five of us went on a birdwalk led by Darryl Thompson from
Pilchuck Audubon Society. We left the freeway at Conway and drove the roads
all around the Samish Flats area and ended up at Samish Island.

Birds seen/heard:
1. Common Loon
2. Pied-billed Grebe
3. Horned Grebe
4. Double-crested Cormorant
5. Great Blue Herons
6. Canada Geese (greater & lesser)
7. Eurasian Wigeon
8. American Wigeon
9. Mallard
10. Northern Pintail
11. Green-winged Teal
12. Surf Scoter
13. White-winged Scoter
14. Red-breasted Merganser
15. Bald Eagle
16. Northern Harrier
17. Sharp-shinned Hawk
18. Red-tailed Hawk
19. Rough-legged Hawk
20. American Kestrel
21. Merlin
22. Gyrfalcon
23. Peregrine Falcon
24. Virginia Rail
25. Black-bellied Plover
26. Killdeer
27. Dunlin
28. Shorebird species (lots of shorebirds at the Samish Island area)
29. Mew Gull
30. Ring-billed Gull
31. California Gull
32. Glaucous-winged Gull
33. Rock Dove
34. Mourning Dove
35. Belted Kingfisher
36. Northern Flicker
37. American Crow
38. Common Raven
39. Black-capped Chickadee
40. Chestnut-backed Chickadee
41. Bushtit
42. Brown Creeper
43. Bewick's Wren
44. Winter Wren
45. Marsh Wren
46. Golden-crowned Kinglet
47. American Robin
48. European Starling
49. Spotted Towhee
50. Savannah Sparrow
51. Song Sparrow
52. Lincoln's Sparrow
53. White-crowned Sparrow
54. Red-winged Blackbird
55. Western Meadowlark
56. Brewer's Blackbird
57. House Finch
58. Pine Siskin

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