Greetings, Tweeters -

Fourteen folks joined the Tahoma Audubon trip to Foulweather Bluff, Point-No-Point and the Hansville Greenway today. We enjoyed good weather and 67 species of birds! That's the same number (although not the same species) that we had on the same trip six months ago. Probably the highlight for us was the nice looking Dark morph Red-tailed Hawk, and the Marbled Murrelets.

Here's our list:

Pacific Loon

Common Loon

Horned Grebe (in gorgeous breeding plumage!)

Red-necked Grebe

Western Grebe

D. C. Cormorant

Brandt's Cormorant

Pelagic Cormorant

Great Blue Heron

Brant

Canada Goose

Green-winged Teal

Mallard

No. Pintail

Am. Wigeon

Ring-necked Duck

Surf Scoter

White-winged Scoter

Bufflehead

Red-breasted Merganser

Bald Eagle

Red-tailed Hawk (excellent dark morph bird)

Killdeer

Greater Yellowlegs

Sanderling

Bonaparte's Gull

Mew Gull

G. W. Gull

Pigeon Guillemot

Marbled Murrelet

Rhinocerous Auklet

Rock Dove

Rufous Hummingbird

Belted Kingfisher

Red-breasted Sapsucker

Downy Woodpecker

Pileated Wodpecker

Tree Swallow

Violet-green Swallow

Steller's Jay

Am. Crow

Com. Raven

B. C. Chickadee

C. B. Chickadee

Red-breasted Nuthatch

Bewick's When

Winter Wren

Marsh Wren

Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Am. Robin

Eur. Starling

Hutton's Vireo

Orange-crowned Warbler

Yellow-rumped Warbler (both Audubon's and Myrtle)

Com. Yellowthroat

Spotted Towhee

Savannah Sparrow

Fox Sparrow

Song Sparrow

Golden-crowned Sparrow

White-crowned Sparrow

Dark-eyed Junco

Red-winged Blackbird

Brewer's Blackbird

Purple Finch

House Finch

Pine Siskin

That's it!

-Rolan


Rolan Nelson
Burley, WA
rnbuffle at yahoo.com


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