Eugene Kridler wrote:

A total of 1,530 individuals of 28 species and 1 subspecies.
Because of poor health due to arthritis and age (83) banding
was primarily confined to using ground traps. The 1,530 added
to the 97,377 banded in previous years adds up to 98,907 birds
in my lifetime. Birds banded in my career as a wildlife
biologist and administrator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service in the Western states of Alaska, California, Hawaii,
Montana, Oregon and Washington as well as after retirement
in Washington. Both on station and personal banding permits
Swans, eagles, cranes, albatrosses, petrels, terns, tropicbirds,
various species of waterfowl egrets, stilts and various other
species of waterbirds and passerines.Not counting species
banded while helping others band. Banding was fun and games
compared to management of refuges and. wildlife in general,
law enforcement. dealing with the public, various agencies
and the public, etc.. That's where the headaches are. Three
House Finch trapped had Avian Conjunctivitis while one had
Fowl Pox nodules on one leg. No evidence of these diseases
were found on other birds in 2002. The Lazuli Bunting was
trapped by Jack Fletcher near the Three Crabs area north of
Sequim on 2-6-02. With the continual growth of housing
developments in and around Sequim, there is a notable change
in use and amount of bird species .Like everywhere else. Maybe
it's time to rest on my oars.

74 Mourning Dove
1 Sharp-shinned Hawk
3 Cooper's Hawk
1 Common Barn Owl
1 Barred Owl
2 Northern Saw-whet Owl
1 Western Screech Owl
3 Steller's Jay
1 European Starling
1 Brown Headed Cowbird
50 Red-winged blackbird
32 Brewer's Blackbird
2 Evening Blackbird
1 Purple Finch .
524 House Finch
15 American Goldfinch
2 Pine Siskin
21 Savannah Sparrow
262 Puget Sound White-crowned Sparrow
8 Gambel's White-crowned Sparrow
202 Golden-crowned Sparrow
191 Dark-eyed Junco (Oregon)
40 Song Sparrow
4 Lincoln Sparrow
16 Fox Sparrow
28 Spotted Towhee
1 Lazuli Bunting
3 Tree Swallow
4 American Robin