Hi again, Tweeters -
[sorry for posting this w/o a subject line - tonight I'm really
taking up bandwidth here]

Here are the results of our November survey at Discovery Park in
Seattle. The recent 'surprise' birds at Discovery Park, including
the Clark's Nutcracker, N.Shrike & Rock Wren, were hiding yesterday
when we did our loops.

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.

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.

The November survey was conducted on Saturday November 6 2004:

Species # seen/heard
Horned Grebe 12
Red-necked Grebe 12
Western Grebe 313
Double-crested Cormorant 11
Great Blue Heron 4
American Wigeon 125
Mallard 21
Greater Scaup 26
Surf Scoter 32
White-winged Scoter 3
Bufflehead 14
Common Goldeneye 4
Hooded Merganser 1
Red-breasted Merganser 4
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Bonaparte's Gull 17
Mew Gull 28
Herring Gull 1
Glaucous-winged Gull 7
Pigeon Guillemot 1
Rhinoceros Auklet 2
Anna's Hummingbird 6
Belted Kingfisher 1
Northern Flicker (Red-sh) 7
Steller's Jay 2
American Crow 168
Black-capped Chickadee 63
Chestnut-backed Chickadee 12
Bushtit 30
Brown Creeper 3
Bewick's Wren 20
Winter Wren 18
Golden-crowned Kinglet 35
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 8
American Robin 68
Varied Thrush 2
European Starling 16
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Aud) 3
Spotted Towhee 15
Fox Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 70
Lincoln's Sparrow 3
White-crowned Sparrow 3
Golden-crowned Sparrow 15
Dark-eyed Junco 2
House Finch 13
Pine Siskin 410
Evening Grosbeak 2

Matt Bartels
Seattle, WA
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