This report was mailed for Wayne Weber by http://birdnotes.net

Date: May 11, 2004
Location: Point Roberts, Whatcom County, Washington

Low temperature: 60 degrees Fahrenheit High temperature: 64 degrees
Fahrenheit
Wind direction: Variable
Prevailing wind speed: 1-5 km/h
Percentage of sky covered by clouds: 10%
Precipitation: none

The following birds were observed by Wayne Weber at Point Roberts,
Whatcom County, WA between about 12 noon and 3:15 PM PDST on
May 11, 2004.

Areas covered were mainly Lily Point and vicinity, forest near the
Point Roberts firehall on Benson Road, and Lighthouse Marine Park.

The highlight was seeing a male PURPLE MARTIN in flight over
Lighthouse Marine Park. The bird was first heard singing, then
circled directly overhead, and finally flew out over Georgia Strait
as if heading for the Gulf Islands. This is my first sighting of
PURPLE MARTIN at Point Roberts in about 35 years of birding there,
and possibly the first sighting there by anyone. Hooray!!

Five breeding-plumage SANDERLINGS at Lighthouse Marine Park were
getting pretty late in the spring.

In addition to the birds, at least four HARBOR SEALS were seen, and
one DOUGLAS SQUIRREL was heard at Lily Point.


Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Pacific Loon 12 [1]
Common Loon 8
Red-necked Grebe 3 [2]
Pelagic Cormorant 6
Gadwall 3 [3]
Mallard 5 [4]
Greater Scaup 4
Harlequin Duck 8 [5]
Surf Scoter 600 [6]
White-winged Scoter 10 [7]
Bufflehead 3 [8]
Bald Eagle 3
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Killdeer 1
Sanderling 5 [9]
Glaucous-winged Gull 100
Caspian Tern 1 [10]
Rock Dove 2
Rufous Hummingbird 1
Western Wood-Pewee 1 [11]
Hutton's Vireo 1 [12]
Warbling Vireo 1
Northwestern Crow 20
Common Raven 1 [13]
Purple Martin 1 [14]
Violet-green Swallow 8
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 2 [15]
Barn Swallow 8
Black-capped Chickadee 1
Chestnut-backed Chickadee 2 [16]
Red-breasted Nuthatch 2
Bewick's Wren 2
Winter Wren 2 [17]
Golden-crowned Kinglet 1 [18]
American Robin 20
European Starling 6
Orange-crowned Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 4
Black-throated Gray Warbler 1 [19]
Common Yellowthroat 1
Wilson's Warbler 1
Spotted Towhee 3
Song Sparrow 2
White-crowned Sparrow 5
Black-headed Grosbeak 1
Red-winged Blackbird 5
Brewer's Blackbird 10
Brown-headed Cowbird 4
House Finch 10
Pine Siskin 6
American Goldfinch 5
House Sparrow 8

Footnotes:

[1] Pacific Loon-- mostly off Lighthouse Marine Park (LMP)
[2] Red-necked Grebe-- off Lily Point
[3] Gadwall-- 1 pair plus 1 male
[4] Mallard-- 4m, 1f
[5] Harlequin Duck-- off beach N of LMP
[6] Surf Scoter-- large flocks in Boundary Bay off Lily Point
[7] White-winged Scoter-- with Surf Scoters
[8] Bufflehead-- 3f in Edwards Drive pond
[9] Sanderling-- on beach at LMP
[10] Caspian Tern-- flyby at LMP
[11] Western Wood-Pewee-- seen briefly, calling near Lily Point
cemetery
[12] Hutton's Vireo-- Lily Point
[13] Common Raven-- heard near firehall
[14] Purple Martin-- as noted above, male singing and circling over
LMP
[15] N. Rough-winged Swallow-- Lily Point
[16] Chestnut-b. Chickadee-- Lily Point
[17] Winter Wren-- Lily Point
[18] Golden-c. Kinglet-- Lily Point
[19] Black-t. Gray Warbler-- Lily Point

Total number of species seen: 52