Tweeters,

I was in Port Townsend for personal reasons this Saturday, and did
some birding as a way to cope with some difficult things. So while
the following does not represent a concerted bird effort, I thought
there might be somebody in charge of the NAMC for the Port Townsend
area who would like the following information. Time spent was from
0545-0845 on 9/15...a total of 10 car miles and about 1.5 foot miles.

Low temperature: 50 degrees fahrenheit High temperature: 65 degrees
fahrenheit
Wind direction: Variable
Prevailing wind speed: < 1 km/h
Percentage of sky covered by clouds: 100%
Precipitation: haze or fog

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Common Loon 1
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Western Grebe 1
Double-crested Cormorant 3
Great Blue Heron 7
American Wigeon 55
Mallard 110
Green-Winged Teal 6
Hooded Merganser 3
Virginia Rail 1
American Coot 2
Killdeer 12
Greater Yellowlegs 4
Sanderling 38
Western Sandpiper 6
Baird's Sandpiper 3 [1]
Pectoral Sandpiper 3 [2]
Short-billed Dowitcher 6
Unidentified Dowitcher 1
Mew Gull 3
Glaucous-winged Gull 55
Glaucous-winged x Western Gull 2
Unidentified gull 40
Pigeon Guillemot 2
Marbled Murrelet 1 [3]
Rock Dove 62
Band-tailed Pigeon 1
Barred Owl 2 [4]
Belted Kingfisher 3
Downy Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker 1
Pacific-slope Flycatcher 1
Steller's Jay 3
American Crow 104
Northwestern Crow 7 [5]
Common Raven 2
Chestnut-backed Chickadee 7
Red-breasted Nuthatch 9
Brown Creeper 4
Winter Wren 7
Golden-crowned Kinglet 22
American Robin 25
European Starling 164
Cedar Waxwing 2
Orange-crowned Warbler 4
Yellow-rumped Warbler 15
Wilson's Warbler 1
Spotted Towhee 10
Savannah Sparrow 5
Fox Sparrow 2
Song Sparrow 24
White-crowned Sparrow 7
Dark-eyed Junco 3
Red-winged Blackbird 54
Purple Finch 11
House Finch 5
Red Crossbill 11
American Goldfinch 7
House Sparrow 5

Footnotes:

[1] with one Western Sandpiper at North Beach, in
sand/cobble/rockweed surf zone
[2] Kah Tai Lagoon
[3] just off beach at Old Fort Townsend State Park
[4] calling pair at dawn, in Old Fort Townsend State Park
[5] normally I do not bother separating crows but these birds were
obviously smaller with more nasal caws

Total number of species seen: 59

Lee Cain
lcain at seasurf.net
Instructor, Aquatic Biology/Integrated Science
Astoria High School
Astoria OR