Hi All,
Just returned from Orcas Island today and had some time to bird
parts of it including Mt Constitution. There were large numbers of American
Robins at the 2000 ft level along with: 22 Varied Thrush, 4 Brown Creepers, 6
Red Crossbills, several Ravens, 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk and 3 Bald Eagles. At
Cascade Lake, just past the entrance, I counted an incrediable 350
Ring-necked Ducks and 1 Clark's Nutcracker! Also 8 Common Merganser and 5
Lesser Scaup. The Frank Richardson Wildfowl Preserve had: 1 pr of Cinnamon
Teal, 4 Wood Ducks, 22 Gadwall, 2 Virginia Rails, 1 Sora, and and assortment
of Bufflehead, Hooded Mergansers and Mallards. Finishing the trip at Deer
harbor we had: 4 Greater Yellowlegs, 4 Red Crossbills, 2 Yellow-rumped
WArblers, 5 Red-breasted Nuthatches, 1 Swamp Sparrow, 2-3 Lincolns Sparrows
and 24 Black-capped Chickadees. Scoping out West Sound: 32 Long-tailed
Ducks, 7 Marbled Murrelets, and 8 Pelagic Cormorants.
I probably missed a few but these were the highlights. I
also missed the quake; it was hardly felt up there.

Good birding, Doug Watkins
dougnpip at aol.com
Bainbridge Is Wa