Dear Tweeters:

Here is the final tally for Kitsap Christmas Count, held 1 January 2000
Highlights were the ,Blue Grouse, Ross's Goose, Snow Goose, Glaucous Gull,
Missing were the Mute Swans and Rhinoceros Auklet.

a total of 124 Species and 23,813 birds



1. Red-throated Loon, 32
2. Pacific Loon, 457
3. Common Loon, 159
4. Pied-billed Grebe, 20
5. Horned Grebe, 115
6. Red-necked Grebe, 465
7. Eared Grebe, 9
8. Western Grebe, 1890
9. Double-cr. Cormorant, 315
10. Brant's Cormorant, 18
11. Pelagic Cormorant, 122
12. Great Blue Heron, 82
13. Greater-White-fronted Goose 1
14. Snow Goose, 1
15. Ross's Goose 1,
16. Canada Goose, 887
17. Wood Duck, 7
18. Green-winged Teal, 188
19. Mallard, 512
20. Northern Pintail, 25
21. Northern Shoveler, 11
22. Gadwall, 2
23. Eurasian Wigeon, 11
24. American Wigeon, 2638
25. Ring-necked Duck, 70
26. Greater Scaup, 341
27. Lesser Scaup, 156
28. Harlequin duck, 11
29. Oldsqaw, 83
30. Black Scoter, 217
31. Surf Scoter, 921
32. White-winger Scoter, 1274
33. Common Goldeneye, 1145
34. Barrow's Goldeneye, 410
35. Bufflehead, 488
36. Hooded Merganser, 87
37. Common Merganser, 262
38. Red-breasted Merganser, 395
39. Osprey 1
40. Ruddy Duck, 50
41. Bald Eagle, 29
42. Sharp-shinned Hawk, 4
43. Cooper's Hawk, 4
44. Red-tailed Hawk, 13
45. Ring-necked Pheasant, 16
46. Blue Grouse (FIRST TIME) 1
47. California Quail, 10
48. Virgina Rail 1
49. American Coot, 29
50. Greater Yellowlegs 11
51. Spotted Sandpiper 2
52. Killdeer, 76
53. Black Turnstone, 65
54. Western Sandpiper 504
55. Surfbird, 3
56. Sanderling, 1
57. Dunlin, 897
58. Common Snipe, 2
59. Bonaparte's Gull, 20
60. Mew Gull, 224
61. Ring-billed Gull, 6
62. Herring Gull, 1
63. Glaucous Gull 1
64. Thayer's Gull, 1
65. Western Gull, 1
66. Glaucous-winged Gull, 1420
67. Common Murre, 7
68. Pigeon Guillemot, 58
69. Marbled Murrelet, 10
70. Rhinocerus Auklet, 8
71. Morning Dove 33
72. Rock Dove, 283
73. Band-tailed Pigeon, 18
74. Barn Owl 2
75. Western Screech-Owl, 1
76. Great Horned Owl, 1
77. Barred Owl, 2
78. Northern Saw-whet Owl, 2
79. Belted Kingfisher, 42
80. Red-Breasted Sapsucker 1
81. Downy Woodpecker, 16
82. Hairy Woodpecker, 7
83. Northern Flicker, 36
84. Pileated Woodpecker, 11
85. Steller's Jay, 65
86. Western Scrub-Jay 3
87. Common Raven 8
88. Crow, 1446
89. Black-capped Chickadee, 163
90. Chestnut-backed Chickadee, 125
91. Bushtit, 70
92. Red-breasted Nuthatch, 54
93. Brown Creeper, 14
94. Bewick's Wren, 54
95. Winter Wren 83
96. Marsh Wren, 11
97. Golden-crowned Kinglet, 365
98. Ruby-crowned Kinglet 112
99. Hermit Thrush,) 1
100. American Robin, 399
101. Varied Thrush, 41
102. American Dipper 1
103. European Starling, 234
104. Cedar Waxwing, 2
105. Hutton's Vireo, 1
106. Orange-crowned Warbler, 1
107. Yellow-rumped Warbler, 1
108. Townsend's Warbler, 32
109. Spotted Towhee, 126
110. Fox Sparrow, 78
111. Song Sparrow, 291
112. Lincoln's Sparrow, 3
113. White-crowned Sparrow, 4
114. White-throated Sparrow 4
115. Golden-crowned Sparrow, 56
116. Dark-eyed Junco, 484
117. Red-winged Blackbird, 45
118. Purple Finch, 17
119. House Finch, 1 111
120. Pine Siskin, 1323
121. Red Crossbill 27
122. Evening Grosbeak 2
123. American Goldfinch, 2
124. House Sparrow, 160