Hi Tweeters -

Here are the results of our October survey at Discovery Park in
Seattle. As already reported, the day's survey included a few
surprises, including a Lapland Longspur, 2 Mountain Chickadees, and 4
Parasitic Jaegers.

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.

The October survey was conducted on Saturday October 2 2004:
Loon spp 2
Red-necked Grebe 5
Western Grebe 21
Double-crested Cormorant 10
Gadwall 1
American Wigeon 10
Mallard 10
Surf Scoter 94
White-winged Scoter 2
Black Scoter 1
Bald Eagle 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Cooper's Hawk 4
California Quail 5
Parasitic Jaeger 4
Bonaparte's Gull 147
Mew Gull 94
California Gull 14
Glaucous-winged Gull 23
Rock Pigeon 2
Band-tailed Pigeon 5
Anna's Hummingbird 16
Rufous Hummingbird 1
Belted Kingfisher 2
Downy Woodpecker 3
Northern Flicker (Red) 20
Pileated Woodpecker 1
Hutton's Vireo 2
Steller's Jay 18
American Crow 123
Barn Swallow 1
Swallow spp 1
Black-capped Chickadee 119
Mountain Chickadee 2
Chestnut-backed Chickadee 11
Bushtit 56
Red-breasted Nuthatch 21
Brown Creeper 8
Bewick's Wren 17
Winter Wren 15
Golden-crowned Kinglet 39
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 24
American Robin 208
Varied Thrush 11
European Starling 195
Cedar Waxwing 20
Orange-crowned Warbler 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Aud) 4
Townsend's Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 1
Spotted Towhee 61
Savannah Sparrow 2
Fox Sparrow 4
Song Sparrow 110
Lincoln's Sparrow 2
White-crowned Sparrow 2
Golden-crowned Sparrow 31
Dark-eyed Junco 51
Lapland Longspur 1
Black-headed Grosbeak 1
Red-winged Blackbird 9
House Finch 57
Pine Siskin 110
American Goldfinch 11
House Sparrow 7


Mat Bartels
Seattle, WA

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