Hello (yet again) Tweeters ???

For several months now, a group of us has been gathering on the first Saturday of every month to conduct bird surveys at Discovery Park. Our monthly census is one of a series being overseen by Seattle Audubon Society at different spots around the area.

For Discovery Park, we now have 6 different ???loops??? that are covered by teams of 2 or 3. Each loop covers a different portion of the park and consists of around 8-10 five-minute stops at set points. At each stop, every species seen or heard inside a 50m-radius circle is recorded during the 5-minute stop. Since the stops are predetermined, the results we are getting will hopefully be useful for longer-term comparisons. Having set stops also means that our results aren???t like a CBC attempt to list everything observed everywhere.

We could certainly use more help [besides adding eyes and ears to the present teams, there???s a 7th loop that is ready and waiting for someone to take it].

Thanks to ???Ranger Penny??? at Discovery Park for organizing all us and totaling up these numbers so quickly.

Combined results from Saturday April 3 [7:30 start, sunny].
(Includes birds heard and/or seen)

Brant 89
Gadwall 2
American Wigeon 4
Mallard 18
Surf Scoter 23
Black Scoter 1
Bufflehead 3
Common Goldeneye 5
California Quail 5
Red-necked Grebe 3
Western Grebe 101
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Pelagic Cormorant 1
Great Blue Heron 7
Sharp-shinned Hawk 2
Cooper's Hawk 1
Sanderling 22
Mew Gull 36
Glaucous-winged Gull 26
Pigeon Guillemot 1
Rhinoceros Auklet 4
Rock Pigeon 4
Band-tailed Pigeon 2
Barred Owl 1
Anna's Hummingbird 10
Rufous Hummingbird 7
Belted Kingfisher 3
Downy Woodpecker 2
Hairy Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker [Red-shafted] 30
Hutton's Vireo 6
Steller's Jay 4
American Crow 115
Violet-green Swallow 2
Black-capped Chickadee 31
Chestnut-backed Chickadee 24
Red-breasted Nuthatch 9
Brown Creeper 15
Bewick's Wren 2
Winter Wren 11
Golden-crowned Kinglet 39
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 14
American Robin 133
Varied Thrush 1
European Starling 18
Orange-crowned Warbler 3
Yellow-rumped (Audubon's) Warbler 1
Spotted Towhee 19
Savannah Sparrow 19
Fox Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 59
White-crowned Sparrow 40
Golden-crowned Sparrow 22
Dark-eyed Junco 7
Red-winged Blackbird 5
House Finch 25
Pine Siskin 39
American Goldfinch 11
House Sparrow 12


Good birding,

Matt Bartels
Seattle, WA