Hello Tweeters -

For several months now, a group of us has been gathering on or around
the first Saturday of every month to take part in the Discovery Park
portion of the "Seattle Audubon Neighborhood Bird Project." 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 7 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.

Here are the combined results for July & August. July surveys were
conducted on about July 3, August surveys were conducted on August 7.

July, 2004 August, 2004
Great Blue Heron 1 1
Gadwall 7 0
Mallard 13 28
Bald Eagle 1 0
Sharp-shinned Hawk 0 1
Cooper's Hawk 0 5
Merlin 1 0
Ring-necked Pheasant 1 0
California Quail 10 5
Western Sandpiper 4 21
Ring-billed Gull 0 1
California Gull 0 25
Glaucous-winged Gull 91 18
Caspian Tern 3 51
Pigeon Guillemot 5 3
Marbled Murrelet 1 0
Rhinoceros Auklet 0 1
Rock Pigeon 3 6
Band-tailed Pigeon 1 3
Anna's Hummingbird 3 13
Rufous Hummingbird 0 1
Belted Kingfisher 3 1
Downy Woodpecker 0 2
No. Flicker (Red-shafted) 6 9
Pileated Woodpecker 0 1
Willow Flycatcher 3 1
Pacific-slope Flycatcher 3 0
Warbling Vireo 1 1
Steller's Jay 0 8
American Crow 106 60
Tree Swallow 1 2
Violet-green Swallow 10 0
N. Rough-winged Swallow 5 1
Barn Swallow 15 24
Black-capped Chickadee 40 73
Chestnut-backed Chickadee 0 8
Bushtit 14 15
Red-breasted Nuthatch 3 11
Brown Creeper 2 5
Bewick's Wren 3 11
Winter Wren 1 3
Golden-crowned Kinglet 0 36
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 0
American Robin 94 21
European Starling 19 42
Cedar Waxwing 5 21
Orange-crowned Warbler 3 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 0 1
Black-throated Gray Warbler 0 1
Wilson's Warbler 0 2
Western Tanager 0 4
Spotted Towhee 21 18
Savannah Sparrow 10 1
Song Sparrow 46 52
White-crowned Sparrow 31 45
Dark-eyed Junco 3 0
Brown-headed Cowbird 36 1
House Finch 8 14
Red Crossbill 0 1
Pine Siskin 0 1
American Goldfinch 19 50
House Sparrow 7 9

Good birding,

Matt Bartels
Seattle, WA
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