Hi Tweets:

Sat. March 24, East Lake Washington Audubon led a trip to Vashon Island for
12 birders. By the end of a full day of birding various habitats, covering
about 50 on-island miles, plus the birds seen from the ferry, we saw/heard 67
species. We didn't list the Mute Swan or a probable Hutton's Vireo that we
heard at more than one location. Some of the highlights included scoped
looks at Red Crossbills, an immature Bald Eagle attempting to catch a duck,
Sanderlings, lots of White-winged Scoters, singing Purple Finch, and male
Rufous Hummingbirds, including one performing his diving aerial display.

SPECIES SEEN
>From 3/24/2001 - Vashon Island, ELWAS ~ 67 seen
Red-throated Loon
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Horned Grebe
Western Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Canada Goose
Brant
Wood Duck
American Wigeon
Green-winged Teal
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Northern Shoveler
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup
Harlequin Duck
Black Scoter
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Common Goldeneye
Barrow's Goldeneye
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Common Merganser
Bald Eagle - 15
Cooper's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk - 3
Peregrine Falcon - on tower seen from West Seattle bridge
Ring-necked Pheasant
Virginia Rail
American Coot
Killdeer
Sanderling
Mew Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Western Gull
Pigeon Guillemot
Rock Dove
Rufous Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Bewick's Wren
Winter Wren
American Robin
Varied Thrush
Bushtit
Black-capped Chickadee
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Brown Creeper
Steller's Jay
American Crow
European Starling
Townsend's Warbler
Spotted Towhee
Song Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Purple Finch
House Finch
Red Crossbill
Pine Siskin

Joyce Meyer
Woodinville, WA
ELWAS