Hello Tweeters,
Yesterday I led a Birdathon trip for Rainier Audubon Society. Three people
joined me on the outing to Thurston County. All in all we had 112 species
during the day. Highlights included:

GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE (3+ flying over Nisqually NWR with Canadas)
RED KNOT (medium-sized flock on the sound, viewed from Nisqually NWR)
WILSON'S PHALAROPE (2 males at the Twin Barn's Ponds)
Great Horned Owl (probable female sat out in the open for a very long time)
ANNA'S HUMMINGBIRD (1 male at Black Lake Meadows)
LEWIS'S WOODPECKER (male at Nisqually NWR on boardwalk not far from visitor's
center)
HAMMOND'S FLYCATCHER (1 calling at Nisqually NWR)
VESPER SPARROW (1 flushed from side of road at Weir Prairie on the eastern
border)

Key:
NR-Nisqually NWR; LC-Lacey Clear-cut; WP-Weir Prairie; BLM-Black Lake
Meadows; EBM-East Bay Marina.

1. Pied-billed Grebe NR-reeds near visitor center
2. Double-crested Cormorant NR
3. Pelagic Cormorant EBM
4. Great Blue Heron NR, BLM, EBM
5. Greater White-fronted Goose NR
6. Canada Goose
7. Mallard
8. Gadwall EBM
9. Green-winged Teal NR, BLM, EBM
10. American Wigeon NR, EBM
11. Northern Pintail NR
12. Northern Shoveler NR
13. Cinnamon Teal NR 4+
14. Lesser Scaup NR
15. Surf Scoter EBM
16. Bufflehead EBM
17. Common Merganser NR
18. Turkey Vulture WP
19. Osprey NR, LC
20. Northern Harrier NR, WP
21. Bald Eagle NP, EBM
22. Cooper's Hawk LC
23. Sharp-shinned Hawk I-5 near NR at end of day
24. Red-tailed Hawk
25. Ring-necked Pheasant NR, WP-about 10 total
26. California Quail NR
27. American Coot NR
28. Black-bellied Plover EBM-many
29. Semipalmated Plover EBM-one
30. Killdeer
31. Greater Yellowlegs NR-heard
32. Lesser Yellowlegs NR-several
33. Spotted Sandpiper NR-near visitor center
34. Red Knot NR
35. Dunlin NR, EBM
36. Western Sandpiper NR
37. Least Sandpiper NR
38. Common Snipe BLM
39. WILSON'S PHALAROPE NR
40. Ring-billed Gull EBM
41. Mew Gull EBM
42. Glaucous-winged Gull
43. Western Gull EBM
44. Caspian Tern NR, EBM
45. Pigeon Guillemot EBM
46. Band-tailed Pigeon WP
47. Rock Dove
48. Mourning Dove WP
49. Great Horned Owl NR
50. Vaux's Swift NR, LC, WP
51. Rufous Hummingbird NR, WP, LC, BLM
52. Anna's Hummingbird BLM
53. Belted Kingfisher EBM
54. LEWIS'S WOODPECKER NR-any previous Thurston County records?
55. Northern Flicker NR, LC, BLM
56. Red-breasted Sapsucker NR
57. Downy Woodpecker NR, BLM
58. Hairy Woodpecker NR-nest site
59. Pileated Woodpecker BLM
60. Western Wood-Pewee NR-nnext to Great Horned Owl
61. Pacific-slope Flycatcher NR-several
62. Hammond's Flycatcher NR-one singing
63. Warbling Vireo NR
64. Steller's Jay NR, WP
65. American Crow
66. Tree Swallow
67. Violet-green Swallow
68. Northern Rough-winged Swallow NR, BLM
69. Cliff Swallow NR
70. Barn Swallow NR, BLM
71. Black-capped Chickadee NR, LC, BLM
72. Chestnut-backed Chickadee LC
73. Bushtit NR, LC
74. Brown Creeper NR
75. Red-breasted Nuthatch LC
76. Winter Wren LC
77. Bewick's Wren NR
78. Marsh Wren NR, BLM
79. Golden-crowned Kinglet NR, LC
80. Western Bluebird WP
81. Hermit Thrush NR
82. American Robin
83. European Starling
84. Cedar Waxwing NR
85. Orange-crowned Warbler NR, LC, WP, BLM-many
86. Yellow-rumped Warbler NR, WP, BLM-many
87. Black-throated Gray Warbler NR-one
88. Townsend's Warbler NR-one
89. Yellow Warbler NR-very many
90. Wilson's Warbler NR, BLM-many
91. Common Yellowthroat NR
92. Western Tanager NR-many
93. Spotted Towhee NR, LC, BLM
94. Chipping Sparrow LC
95. Savannah Sparrow NR, LC, WP
96. Song Sparrow
97. Lincoln's Sparrow NR-2
98. Vesper Sparrow WP
99. White-crowned Sparrow NR, LC, WP, BLM
100. Golden-crowned Sparrow NR, BLM
101. Dark-eyed Junco LC, WP
102. Black-headed Grosbeak BLM
103. Western Meadowlark WP
104. Red-winged Blackbird
105. Brewer's Blackbird NR, WP
106. Brown-headed Cowbird NR, LC, WP
107. House Finch
108. Red Crossbill WP
109. Pine Siskin one very mixed up bird actively building a nest at
Nisqually in a large Maple
110. American Goldfinch NR, WP, BLM
111. Evening Grosbeak NR, BLM
112. House Sparrow

That's all for now, Good Birding!

Charlie Wright, 12
Birdking88 at aol.com
Sumner, WA