Hi Tweeters -

Here are the results of our December survey at Discovery Park in
Seattle. Sorry for the delays in posting it - it was a pretty slow
count-day, all told.

Overview:For over a year 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. More
participants are always welcome.

For Discovery Park, we now have several 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.

The December survey was conducted on Saturday December 4 2004:


Species December 04
Horned Grebe 4
Red-necked Grebe 1
Western Grebe 5
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Brant 3
American Wigeon 48
Mallard 15
Greater Scaup 35
Surf Scoter 12
White-winged Scoter 1
Bufflehead 17
Common Goldeneye 1
Barrow's Goldeneye 2
Red-breasted Merganser 6
Bald Eagle 2
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Merlin 3
Surfbird 2
Mew Gull 3
Ring-billed Gull 1
Herring Gull 1
Glaucous-winged Gull 32
Anna's Hummingbird 1
Downy Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker 13
American Crow 62
Black-capped Chickadee 37
Chestnut-backed Chickadee 16
Bushtit 30
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
Brown Creeper 5
Bewick's Wren 8
Winter Wren 11
Golden-crowned Kinglet 44
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 11
American Robin 26
European Starling 15
Yellow-rumped Warbler 10
Spotted Towhee 11
Fox Sparrow 6
Song Sparrow 44
Golden-crowned Sparrow 3
Dark-eyed Junco 8
House Finch 4
Pine Siskin 57

Matt Bartels
Seattle, WA
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