Subject: Census Count: English Boom, Island County, Washington on April 26, 2004
Date: Apr 30 02:48:41 2004
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This report was mailed for Wayne Weber by http://birdnotes.net

Date: April 26, 2004
Location: English Boom, Island County, Washington

Low temperature: 64 degrees fahrenheit High temperature: 73 degrees fahrenheit
Wind direction: Variable
Prevailing wind speed: 1-5 km/h
Percentage of sky covered by clouds: 0%
Precipitation: none

The following birds were observed by Wayne Weber at and near English
Boom County Park, Camano Island, WA between about 10:30 AM and 2:15
PM on April 26, 2004.

I briefly met and spoke to local birder Kurt Pearson, who arrived
just as I was leaving.

My birding included a lot of time spent in the forest along Moore
Road south of the park, where there were lots of migrant songbirds.

Noteworthy birds included an early WESTERN TANAGER, at least 5 PURPLE
MARTINS (3m, 2f) around the nest boxes, a GREAT HORNED OWL seen in
the woods just above the park, and a pair of OSPREYS at a nest along
the shoreline east of the park.

I heard one DOUGLAS SQUIRREL calling in the woods along Moore Road.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Common Loon 6
Horned Grebe 20
Great Blue Heron 25
American Wigeon 40
Northern Pintail 120
Green-Winged Teal 80
Greater Scaup 250
Surf Scoter 30
Bufflehead 30
Common Goldeneye 4
Red-breasted Merganser 3
Osprey 2 [1]
Bald Eagle 3 [2]
Killdeer 2
Greater Yellowlegs 2
Western Sandpiper 3
Least Sandpiper 23
Short-billed Dowitcher 9
Mew Gull 10
Glaucous-winged Gull 50
Band-tailed Pigeon 1
Great Horned Owl 1
Rufous Hummingbird 1
Belted Kingfisher 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
Pileated Woodpecker 1
Pacific-slope Flycatcher 2
Hutton's Vireo 2
American Crow 6
Common Raven 1
Purple Martin 5
Tree Swallow 10
Violet-green Swallow 4
Black-capped Chickadee 2
Chestnut-backed Chickadee 8
Red-breasted Nuthatch 3
Brown Creeper 1
Winter Wren 2
Golden-crowned Kinglet 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
American Robin 10
European Starling 10
Orange-crowned Warbler 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler 6
Black-throated Gray Warbler 4
Townsend's Warbler 3
Western Tanager 1
Spotted Towhee 3
Song Sparrow 8
Lincoln's Sparrow 1
White-crowned Sparrow 4
Golden-crowned Sparrow 1
Brown-headed Cowbird 3
Purple Finch 1
House Finch 3
Pine Siskin 4
American Goldfinch 6

Footnotes:

[1] Osprey-- pair at nest
[2] Bald Eagle-- all ads.

Total number of species seen: 57