Greetings Tweets -

There are now 3 broods of Wood Duck on the McLane Creek Nature Trail
beaver ponds...

This report was mailed for Doug Canning by http://birdnotes.net

Date: June 2, 2005
Location: McLane Creek Nature Trail, Thurston County, Washington

Between 1625 and 1845 I walked a 1.7-mile, figure-8 trail loop around
the beaver ponds and on the McLane Creek bottoms. The beaver ponds
are still over-flowing.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Wood Duck (Aix sponsa) 17 [1]
Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) 5 [2]
Band-tailed Pigeon (Columba fasciata) 1 [3]
Downy Woodpecker (Picoides pubescens) 1 [4]
Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) 2 [5]
Steller's Jay (Cyanocitta stelleri) 1 [6]
American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) 5 [7]
Violet-green Swallow (Tachycineta thalassina) 15 [8]
Red-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta canadensis) 1 [9]
House Wren (Troglodytes aedon) 2
Swainson's Thrush (Catharus ustulatus) 11 [10]
American Robin (Turdus migratorius) 20 [11]
Common Yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas) 8 [12]
Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) 5 [13]

Footnotes:

[1] 3 broods: female with 6 class 1A ducklings; female with 3 class
2A ducklings; female with 5 class 1C ducklings.
[2] Female with 4 class 1C ducklings.
[3] Heard.
[4] Male.
[5] Heard.
[6] Heard.
[7] Heard.
[8] Fly-catching over the ponds.
[9] Heard.
[10] Heard.
[11] 15 heard; 5 seen feeding on Salmonberries.
[12] 6 males, 2 females.
[13] 2 males, 3 females.


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Douglas Canning
Olympia, Washington
dcanning at zhonka.net
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