Subject: Bowerman Basin, Grays Harbor Co., WA - 4/25/2002
Date: Apr 25 18:16:32 2002
From: Mike Patterson - celata at pacifier.com


Bowerman Basin, Grays Harbor County, Washington
April 25, 2002

I was invited up to Bowerman basin to help point out shorebirds
and tour the land trusts efforts of the Grays Harbor Audubon
Society. There were plenty of shorebirds at Bowerman Basin,
mostly WESTERN SANDPIPERS, but a nice mix for the spring
migration.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture 2
Canada Goose
Gadwall
Eurasian Wigeon 1
American Wigeon
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-Winged Teal
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Osprey 1
Bald Eagle 1
Northern Harrier 1
Cooper's Hawk 1
Peregrine Falcon 1
Black-bellied Plover 5
Semipalmated Plover 100
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Black Turnstone 6
Red Knot 2
Western Sandpiper 18000
Least Sandpiper 50
Dunlin 1000
Short-billed Dowitcher 35
Common Snipe 1
Band-tailed Pigeon
Rufous Hummingbird
Northern Flicker
Steller's Jay
American Crow
Common Raven
Tree Swallow
Violet-green Swallow
Barn Swallow
Black-capped Chickadee
Bewick's Wren
Marsh Wren
American Robin
European Starling
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
MacGillivray's Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Wilson's Warbler
Spotted Towhee
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird

Total number of species seen: 57
--
Mike Patterson
Astoria, OR
celata at pacifier.com

http://www.pacifier.com/~mpatters/bird/bird.html