Subject: e. Oly. Peninsula 1 Jan; Grays Harbor 2 Jan 04
Date: Jan 3 12:44:32 2004
From: Charlie Wright - charlie at birdwright.com


Sorry about the late report -
I started out the New Year with a bang, birding from the Kitsap Peninsula
west to Port Townsend with Ryan Shaw, Dennis Duffy, SteveMlodinow, & Cameron
Cox.

Thursday, 1 January 2004 (7:30am-4:00pm).
Kitsap & Jefferson County - 76 species.
High overcast, N 5-15mph, 32-40 F.

HOOD CANAL
YELLOW-BILLED LOON (2ad.)-from pulloff on hwy, S side of the bridge.
Marbled Murrelet (10)

POINT NO POINT
Red-throated Loon (15)
Brandt's Cormorant (360+)
Pelagic Cormorant (20)

PORT GAMBLE AREA
Brant (5)
White-winged Scoter (40)
Long-tailed Duck (2)
Red-throated Loon (20)
Horned Grebe (20)
Red-necked Grebe (25)
Western Grebe (50)
Lincoln's Sparrow (2)

PORT LUDLOW
Barrow's Goldeneye (1)
Red-throated Loon (35): incl. one w/ radio transmitter.
Pacific Loon (4)
Common Loon (1)
Horned Grebe (20)
Red-necked Grebe (10)
Brandt's Cormorant (2)
Pigeon Guillemot (10)
Marbled Murrelet (8)
Rhinoceros Auklet (1)-alternate plumage.

INDIAN ISLAND
Brant (30)
Harlequin Duck (2)
Surf Scoter (15)
White-winged Scoter (70)
Long-tailed Duck (5)
Pacific Loon (5)
Canada Goose (1)-only one of day.

FORT FLAGLER STATE PARK
Brant (65)
Harlequin Duck (16)
Long-tailed Duck (12)
Red-breasted Merganser (25)
Red-throated Loon (10)
Pacific Loon (8)
Black-bellied Plover (50)
Dunlin (120)
Sanderling (25)
Thayer's Gull (4+)
Marbled Murrelet (4)
Hairy Woodpecker (1)

OAK BAY COUNTY PARK
Harlequin Duck (6)
Eared Grebe (3)
Thayer's Gull (1)
Marbled Murrelet (2)

PORT TOWNSEND WATERFRONT
Black Turnstone (2)
Dunlin (20)
Yellow-rumped Warbler (2)
Lincoln's Sparrow (1)

KAH TAI LAGOON
Snow Goose (1-1W)
Sharp-shinned Hawk (1)

POINT HUDSON
Red-throated Loon (10)
Pacific Loon (25)
Common Loon (2)
Brant (5)

POINT WILSON
Harlequin Duck (5)
Pacific Loon (12)
Brandt's Cormorant (20)
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On the 2nd of the year Cameron, Ryan, and I headed out to the coast, between
Hoquiam and Raymond.

Friday, 2 January 2004 (7:45am-4:30pm).
Thurston, Grays Harbor & Pacific Co - 95 species.
Overcast, snow covered ground, rain/hail/snow in PM.

Nisqually NWR, Thurston Co (8:00-8:25)
ROSS'S GOOSE (2)-along entrance road w/ 500 Cackling.
Black-bellied Plover (12)
Red-breasted Sapsucker (1)
Northern Shrike (1ad.)
COMMON YELLOWTHROAT (1)-marsh behind visitors center.

Capitol Lake (8:45-9:10)
Ring-necked Duck (3)
Greater Scaup (60)
Lesser Scaup (80)

Wakefield Rd, S of Elma, Gray Harbor Co (9:45-10:20)
Trumpeter Swan (3)
Northern Harrier (1)
Hairy Woodpecker (2)
Song Sparrow (30)
Lincoln's Sparrow (4)

'K' Street field, Hoquiam (10:45-11:40)
Greater White-fronted Goose (2)-one seemed to be injured.
Pink-footed Goose (2)-foraging busily.
Dusky Canada Goose (10, plus 2 Vancouver-types)
COMMON TEAL (1m.)
Merlin (1f.)
Western Meadowlark (6)

Hoquiam STP (11:50-12:00)
Canvasback (35)
Hooded Merganser (8)
Rough-legged Hawk (1 light)
Least Sandpiper (20)

Midway Beach/Warrenton Cannery Rd, Pacific Co (1:00-1:40)
Semipalmated Plover (5)
Sanderling (30)
Horned Lark (1)

Tokeland Marina (2:00-2:20), somewhat low tide.
Red-breasted Merganser (6)
Common Loon (1)
Willet (8)
Long-billed Curlew (1)
Western Sandpiper (12)

Hwy 105, milepost 13 near Tokeland (2:35)
Marbled Godwit (650)

Hwy 105 just N of Raymond (3:00)
Glaucous-winged Gull (700)
Western Gull (300)
Gl-winged x Western (200)
Herring Gull (10+)
Thayer's Gull (6)

Raymond Sewage Treatment Plant (3:10-3:30)
Greater Scaup (6)
Lesser Scaup (80)
NELSON'S GULL (1-1W)
Spotted Sandpiper (1)
Pine Siskin (40)

Hwy 101 S of Artic (3:45)
Peregrine Falcon (1)

Brady Loop Road (4:00-4:25)
Tundra Swan (12)
Northern Harrier (4)
Rough-legged Hawk (1 light morph)
American Kestrel (1m.)
American Pipit (25)

That was a quick 114 species on the new year list!

Cheers and good birding,
Charlie Wright
Sumner WA
charlie at birdwright.com