Subject: [Tweeters] Break Lake- 4/11/2005
Date: Apr 11 15:49:46 2005
From: Mike Patterson - celata at pacifier.com


I finally got a weather break to do the first April census
(I tried last week and got rained out after 7 stations).

Good warbler movement, mostly ORANGE-CROWNS. A RUFFED
GROUSE was booming from station 11, not the usual spot and
somewhat atypical display habitat (dense salal with pretty
much no canopy).

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Canada Goose 1
Mallard 4
Green-Winged Teal 4
Ring-necked Duck 1
Ruffed Grouse 1 [1]
Great Blue Heron 1
Bald Eagle 1
Merlin 1
Common Snipe 1
Western Gull 2
Unidentified gull 3
Band-tailed Pigeon 1
Rufous Hummingbird 8
Downy Woodpecker 3
Northern Flicker 2
Steller's Jay 10
American Crow 23
Common Raven 2
Chestnut-backed Chickadee 10
Bushtit 3
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
Bewick's Wren 2
Winter Wren 8
Marsh Wren 8
Golden-crowned Kinglet 13
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2
American Robin 15
Varied Thrush 3
European Starling 13
Orange-crowned Warbler 21
Yellow-rumped Warbler 7 [2]
Townsend's Warbler 5
Common Yellowthroat 2
Fox Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 6
White-crowned Sparrow 1
Dark-eyed Junco 2
Red-winged Blackbird 6
Purple Finch 3
Red Crossbill 1
Pine Siskin 7
House Sparrow 1

Footnotes:

[1] booming from the open salal at st11 (not the usual displaying
site)
[2] 1 AUWA; 4MYWA; 2 not seen to determine race

Total number of species seen: 42

--
Mike Patterson
Astoria, OR
celata at pacifier.com

If you want to end war and stuff, you've got to sing loud
- Arlo Guthrie