Subject: SAS Discovery Park Neighborhood Bird Project May & June results
Date: Jun 13 13:47:51 2004
From: Matt Bartels - mattxyz at earthlink.net


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 May & June. May surveys were
conducted mostly on May 1; June surveys were conducted on various
days up until the 12th to fit with various travel schedules.


May, 2004 June, 2004
Common Loon 1 0
Red-necked Grebe 8 0
Western Grebe 48 0
Double-crested Cormorant 3 0
Pelagic Cormorant 5 0
Great Blue Heron 0 2
Brant 2 0
Gadwall 3 2
Mallard 2 22
Cinnamon Teal 2 0
Surf Scoter 101 0
Bufflehead 9 0
Osprey 0 1
Bald Eagle 2 3
Cooper's Hawk 2 0
California Quail 5 7
Killdeer 3 5
Mew Gull 1 0
California Gull 0 1
Glaucous-winged Gull 61 40
Pigeon Guillemot 2 0
Marbled Murrelet 3 0
Rhinoceros Auklet 4 0
Rock Pigeon 2 12
Band-tailed Pigeon 1 13
Anna's Hummingbird 4 7
Rufous Hummingbird 5 6
Belted Kingfisher 0 3
Downy Woodpecker 0 3
Northern Flicker (Red-shafted) 12 11
Pileated Woodpecker 0 1
Olive-sided Flycatcher 0 1
Western Wood-Pewee 0 1
Willow Flycatcher 0 4
Pacific-slope Flycatcher 1 6
Hutton's Vireo 1 0
Warbling Vireo 1 2
Steller's Jay 0 6
American Crow 62 73
Purple Martin 2 0
Tree Swallow 0 8
Violet-green Swallow 7 7
N.Rough-winged Swallow 2 0
Barn Swallow 5 11
Black-capped Chickadee 23 34
Chestnut-backed Chickadee 0 9
Bushtit 0 16
Red-breasted Nuthatch 4 7
Brown Creeper 4 2
Bewick's Wren 8 8
Winter Wren 0 2
Golden-crowned Kinglet 1 4
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 2
Swainson's Thrush 0 10
American Robin 51 62
Varied Thrush 0 1
European Starling 23 40
Cedar Waxwing 0 8
Orange-crowned Warbler 7 5
Yellow Warbler 3 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Aud) 1 0
Wilson's Warbler 5 1
Western Tanager 1 1
Spotted Towhee 6 33
Savannah Sparrow 35 26
Fox Sparrow 0 1
Song Sparrow 29 41
White-crowned Sparrow 28 31
Dark-eyed Junco 1 4
Black-headed Grosbeak 0 4
Red-winged Blackbird 11 8
Brown-headed Cowbird 21 19
House Finch 0 10
Pine Siskin 1 2
American Goldfinch 37 40
Evening Grosbeak 6 0
House Sparrow 6 15

Good birding,

Matt Bartels
Seattle, WA
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