Subject: Tiny's Land arrivals, Lake Stevens
Date: May 3 18:19:59 2003
From: Scott Atkinson - scottratkinson at hotmail.com


Tweeters:

We had a few arrivals today up in n. Lake Stevens, including first-of-year
W. TANAGER and WILSON'S WARBLER, right about on time. The oddity was a
flyover COMMON LOON, only our second although the first was in May of last
year also. Total count for about 1.5 hour walk on trail, entry road
(includes heard-onlys):

COM. LOON 1 (2nd record)
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Pileated Woodpecker 1
Pacific-slope Flycatcher 4 (first was 4/30, almost two weeks late)
Violet-gr. Swallow 6
Com. Crow 4
CB Chickadee 8
Winter Wren 9
Bewick's Wren 2
Brown Creeper 2
RB Nuthatch 3
Am. Robin 10
Hermit Thrush 1
GC Kinglet 5
Hutton's Vireo 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 20 (high count)
Townsend's Warbler 1
Black-thr. Gray Warbler 2 (first 4/24)
Wilson's Warbler 1 (first of year)
Com. Yellowthroat 1 (another 4/20)
W. Tanager 1 (first of year)
Spotted Towhee 7
Song Sparrow 6
Brewer's Blackbird 2
BH Cowbird 1 (first of year! very late)
Evening Grosbeak 6
Purple Finch 3
Red Crossbill 4
Pine Siskin 10
Am. Goldfinch 2

31 species (others in recent weeks: BT Pigeon May 1, Rufous Hummer,
Hammond's Flycatchers 4/20 & 27, Steller's Jay, BC Chickadee, Tree Swallow,
RC Kinglet, Swainson's Thrush 4/20, OC Warbler, WC Sparrow, DE Junco).

Scott Atkinson
Lake Stevens
mail to: scottratkinson at hotmail.com



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