Subject: Hadlock,Jefferson Co.New Homes Estate:
Date: Mar 24 20:24:19 2001
From: Ruth Sullivan - godwit at worldnet.att.net


Hello Tweeters,
I would like to ad a little information about our birdtrip today,what
Patrick din't mention. We never birded this place before, but i was
astonished to find so many birds there in just over one hours of time.It is
very sad that all this habitat would be used to building very expensive
homes there We walked this place on a trail all the way up hill to overlook
the bay and the Marina where there also is a wetland with a smal
pond.Habitat consist of mixed forest of conniferof fir-Alder and Maple trees
lot's of brambling where this birds popped out.This is one of the places
where you find a variethy of birds since there is Forest and water
combined.This are the many birds we saw:
Red-necked Grebes 5
Brand Goose 75
Mallard Duck30
American Wigeon 20
Greater Scaup 8
White-winged Scoter 8
Common Goldeneye 2
Bufflehead15
Kingfisher 2
Mew Gulls 25
Western Gull 1
Olympus Gulls 30
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Rufous Hammingbirds 2 (male and female)
Red-brested Merganser 18
Rhinoceros Auklet
Northern Flicker 2
Bushtits 2
Brown Creeper 2
Marsh Wren 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 4
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2
American Robin15
Hutton's Vireo 2
Spotted Towhee 3
Sons Sparrows 7
Dark-eyed Junco 15
White -crowned Sparrow 12
Fox Sparrow 5
House Sparrow 15
Pine Siskin15
Purple Finches 4
House Finches 15
All together we had 33species,but for such a smal area it seems a lot.I also
like to mention that we had high counts on Brant Goose today in most areas
we visit.

Ruth Sullivan
Tacoma,
..godwit at worldnet.att.net