Subject: Redpolls at Tiny's Land the 24th
Date: Dec 25 18:12:22 2001
From: Scott Atkinson - scottratkinson at hotmail.com


Merry Christmas to all:

Taking occasional breaks from yard work yesterday to walk the entry road and
check the feeder, had a few interesting birds at our place in Lake Stevens
yesterday, Christmas eve. The highlights were 3 COM. REDPOLLS in a flock of
siskins that fed high in the alders at the edges of the yard, and I also
heard, far off, a finch that was possibly a WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL, but
could have been "just" another redpoll instead. Our Hermit Thrush stayed
another day. The yard list for the 24th:

N. (Red-sh.) Flicker 2
Downy Woodpecker 1
Hairy Woodpecker 2
Steller's Jay 1
Com. Raven 1
crow, sp. 85 (flyovers at dusk)
Black-capped Chickadee 2
Chesnut-backed Chickadee 9
Brown Creeper 2
Winter Wren 12
Bewick's Wren 2
Varied Thrush 3
Hermit Thrush 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 15
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 4
Hutton's Vireo 2
Townsend's Warbler 1
Spotted Towhee 2
Dark-eyed (Ore.) Junco 6
Song Sparrow 12
Pine Siskin 45
COM. REDPOLL 3
FINCH (Loxia/Carduelis)sp.1

Total, 22-23 species

(the 23rd only: Fox Sparrow, Evening Grosbeak, Red Crossbill 5)

Also--while stuck in traffic on northbound I-5 yesterday, I noted a group of
shorebirds standing on the logboom at the west edge of the main pond at the
Everett STP. Most of the birds were BB Plover and Dunlin, but there was a
group of 15 or so smaller peep--Least or Westerns. Grinding along a few
minutes later, at a mud puddle on the Biringer Farm property east of I-5 at
the Marysville exit, there were 4 LEAST SANDPIPERS.

Scott Atkinson
Lake Stevens
email: scottratkinson at hotmail.com

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