Tweeters,

Spencer Island was really great today, with cool but partly sunny weather
and little wind. The birds responded by foraging actively. Here is our
list (STP = sewage treatment ponds):

Pied-billed Grebe 3
Great Blue Heron 4
Canada Goose 50 (STP)
Gadwall 50 (STP)
American Wigeon 10
Mallard 50
Northern Shoveler 20 (STP)
Northern Pintail 10
Green-winged Teal 2
Canvasback 300 (STP, distant)
Lesser Scaup 8
Bufflehead 15
Ruddy Duck 300 (STP)
Northern Harrier 4
Red-tailed Hawk 5
Merlin 1
Virginia Rail heard several
American Coot 100
Bonaparte's Gull 60 (>50 feeding in the ponds in the hunting area, also STP)
Mew Gull 200 (STP, flying over SI)
Glaucous-winged Gull 20 (STP, flying over SI)
Belted Kingfisher 2
Downy Woodpecker 1
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 2
crow 50
Black-capped Chickadee 15
Winter Wren 2
Marsh Wren 10
Golden-crowned Kinglet 6
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 3
American Robin 30
European Starling 40
Orange-crowned Warbler 1
Spotted Towhee 10
Fox Sparrow 6
Song Sparrow 60
Lincoln's Sparrow 5
White-throated Sparrow 2 (adults, together at NW corner, feeding on deadly
nightshade berries, one white-striped, one tan-striped; almost surely a
third bird at the same spot)
White-crowned Sparrow 3
Golden-crowned Sparrow 10
Dark-eyed Junco 15
House Finch 5
Pine Siskin 40

Also 3 River Otters, 2 Black-tailed Deer, a teensy weensy Common Garter
Snake, and what will probably be our last dragonfly of the year, an
unidentified darner that streaked by.

Dennis
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Netta Smith and Dennis Paulson
1724 NE 98 St.
Seattle, WA 98115