Hi Tweeters -
Here're are the totals for our September survey at Discovery Park in
Seattle. Of particular interest was a BROWN PELICAN [rare in King Co]
seen at 8:50 flying from NE - S over the beach area.


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 September survey was conducted today, September 4 2004.
September, 2004
Brown Pelican 1
Double-crested Cormorant 14
Great Blue Heron 1
Gadwall 9
Mallard 4
Cooper's Hawk 1
American Kestrel 1
California Quail 3
Semipalmated Plover 3
Black Turnstone 2
Surfbird 2
Sanderling 6
Western Sandpiper 3
Mew Gull 10
Ring-billed Gull 3
California Gull 2
Glaucous-winged Gull 5
Caspian Tern 6
Pigeon Guillemot 1
Rock Pigeon 1
Barred Owl 1
Anna's Hummingbird 22
Rufous Hummingbird 1
Belted Kingfisher 4
Northern Flicker (red-shafted) 10
Hutton's Vireo 3
Steller's Jay 27
American Crow 48
Barn Swallow 29
Black-capped Chickadee 42
Chestnut-backed Chickadee 18
Bushtit 25
Red-breasted Nuthatch 18
Brown Creeper 1
Bewick's Wren 19
Winter Wren 4
Golden-crowned Kinglet 3
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 5
Swainson's Thrush 2
American Robin 25
European Starling 111
Cedar Waxwing 24
Orange-crowned Warbler 7
Yellow Warbler 3
Townsend's Warbler 1
Spotted Towhee 20
Savannah Sparrow 6
Song Sparrow 63
Lincoln's Sparrow 3
White-crowned Sparrow 5
Dark-eyed Junco 6
Black-headed Grosbeak 1
House Finch 8
American Goldfinch 12

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