Subject: Skagit to Whidbey 2/2
Date: Feb 2 20:31:08 2002
From: Scott G. Downes - Downess at cwu.EDU


Tweets,
Michael Dossett and I did the skagit to whidbey loop today. The weather was great and although not trying for any big species total when we tallied it up for the day we came up with 94 species. Most of the highlights were around the Skagit Game Farm HQ, with 2 female PINE GROSBEAK and 1 WHITE-THROATED SPARROW seen on the dike. We also had a PEREGRINE FALCON here, amazingly our only falcon of the day. On the road leading into the HQ from Fir Island road we had a rather large flock of WESTERN MEADOWLARKS 15+ with a very albinistic one mixed in.
Other than that not too many highlights, we did have an adlut HERRING X GLAUCOUS-WINGED GULL off of March Point.

Good Birding.

Scott Downes
downess at cwu.edu
Ellensburg WA