Dear Tweeters,

The WOS trip on Saturday was a good one. The eight
participants were Jim McCoy, Kathy Andrich, Ollie and
Grace Oliver, Roger and Jean Leed, Michael West, and
myself.

We visited Rosario Head, Pass and Campbell Lakes,
Green Point, March's Point, the parking lot of the
Farmhouse Inn, and the Fir Island Game Range.

We identified around 70 species. Besides the 68 shown
below, there was a probably Cooper's Hawk, and some
scaups that we could not agree on.

1. Common Loon
2. Red-throated Loon
3. Red-necked Grebe
4. Horned Grebe
5. Double-crested Cormorant
6. Pelagic Cormorant
7. Brandt's Cormorant
8. GREEN HERON (Game Range)
9. Great Blue Heron
10. Mallard
11. Northern Pintail
12. Greater Scaup
13. Bufflehead
14. Common Goldeneye
15. White-winged Scoter
16. Surf Scoter
17. Oldsquaw
18. Harlequin Duck
19. Common Merganser
20. Red-breasted Merganser
21. Hooded Merganser
22. Bald Eagle
23. Red-tailed Hawk
24. Rough-legged Hawk
25. Merlin
26. California Quail
27. American Coot
28. Killdeer
29. Dunlin
30. Black Turnstone (8+ at usual March's Point pier)
31. Spotted Sandpiper (1 at Rosario)
32. Glaucous-winged Gull
33. Mew Gull
34. ANCIENT MURRELET (3, Rosario)
35. Marbled Murrelet
36. Common Murre
37. Rhinoceros Auklet
38. Pigeon Guillemot
39. ANNA's HUMMINGBIRD (1, Green Point)
40. Great Horned Owl
41. Belted Kingfisher
42. Rock Pigeon
43. Mourning Dove
44. Hairy Woodpecker
45. Downy Woodpecker
46. Northern Flicker
47. American Robin
48. Varied Thrush
49. Eurasian Starling
50. Black-capped Chickadee
51. Chestnut-backed Chickadee
52. Brown Creeper
53. Red-breasted Nuthatch
54. Golden-crowned Kinglet
55. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
56. Bewick's Wren
57. Winter Wren
58. Marsh Wren
59. American Crow
60. Spotted Towhee
61. Oregon Junco
62. Song Sparrow
63. Fox Sparrow
64. Golden-crowned Sparrow
65. Brewer's Blackbird
66. House Finch
67. Red Crossbill
68. Pine Siskin

We had multiple sightings of many of the seabirds at
both Rosario Head and Green Point. March's Point was
rather slow, but the Turnstones made up for the lack
of large duck flocks. The only brant we saw were a set
of giant-sized decoys surrounding a hunter's boat out
on Padilla Bay.




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Yours truly,

Gary Bletsch

near Lyman (Skagit County), Washington

garybletsch at yahoo.com




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