The following species were national high counts for last season's
Christmas Bird Counts.

622 Pacific Loons - Tacoma, WA
4 Yellow-billed Loons - tie Edmonds, WA & Sequim-Dungeness, WA
462 Red-necked Grebes - Tacoma, WA
411 Pelagic Cormorants - Tacoma, WA
9817 American Wigeon - Padilla Bay, WA
61 Mountain Quail - Klamath Falls, OR
6167 Killdeer - Corvallis, OR
24020 Dunlin - Leadbetter Pt, WA
3726 Glaucous-winged Gulls - Tillamook Bay, OR
66000 Common Murres - Tillamook Bay, OR
944 Pigeon Guillemots - Sequim-Dungeness, WA
1846 Ancient Murrelets - Sequim-Dungeness, WA
757 Rhinceros Auklets - Tacoma, WA
6 Northern Pygmy Owls - Spokane, WA
16 Northern Shikes - Redmond, OR
777 Pygmy Nuthatches - Spokane, WA
1647 Golden-crowned Kinglets - Sequim-Dungeness, WA
293 Sooty Fox Sparrows - Columbia Estuary, OR
1845 Song Sparrows - Airlie, OR
254 Red Crossbills - Sisters, OR
3462 Pine Siskin - Sequim-Dungeness, WA

I think I got them all.

He's hoping that, in the spirit of good clean competition we all
whack those bushes and get all the kinglets, Song Sparrows and
siskins counted. Let's set some more records.

--
Mike Patterson
Astoria, OR
celata at pacifier.com

If you want to end war and stuff, you've got to sing loud
- Arlo Guthrie