Our 4-member team spent Saturday finding birds and raising money for Whidbey
Audubon Society. Our team managed to locate 111 species this year. Nothing
out of the ordinary was found except a somewhat late Varied Thrush. The 8
Turkey Vultures over the Crockett's Lake are were a bit of a surprise as
well. Notable misses: Black-throated Gray Warbler, Western Tanager, Brandt's
Cormorant, Common Murre, Wood Duck. Here are the species in more or less
taxonomic order. E-mail me if you desire locations.
Pacific Loon Common Loon
Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe
Western Grebe Double-crested Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant Great-blue Heron
Canada Goose Green-winged Teal
Mallard Northern Pintail
Cinnamon Teal Northern Shoveler
Gadwall American Wigeon
Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup Harlequin Duck
Long-tailed Duck Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye
Barrow's Goldeneye Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser Red-breasted Merganser
Ruddy Duck Turkey Vulture
Osprey Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier Cooper's Hawk
Sharp-shinned Hawk Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel California Quail
Virginia Rail Sora
American Coot Killdeer
Black OysterCatcher Lesser Yellowlegs
Black Turnstone Surfbird
Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper
Dunlin Mew Gull
Ring-billed Gull Glaucous-winged Gull
Pigeon Guillemot Marbled Murrelet
Rhinoceros Auklet Rock Pigeon
Band-tailed Pigeon Mourning Dove
Barn Owl Great-horned Owl
Barred Owl Rufous Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker Western Wood-Pewee
Pacific-slope Flycatcher Hutton's Vireo
Cassin's Vireo Steller's Jay
American Crow Common Raven
Tree Swallow Violet-green Swallow
No. Rough-winged Swallow Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow Black-capped Chickadee
Chestnut-backed Chickadee Bushtit
Brown Creeper Red-breasted Nuthatch
Bewick's Wren Winter Wren
Marsh Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet
Varied Thrush American Robin
European Starling Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler Townsend's Warbler
Common Yellowthroat Wilson's Warbler
Spotted Towhee Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow Golden-crowned Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird Brewer's Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird House Finch
Pine Siskin American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
In addition were:
Pacific Chorus frog
Mammals:Cottontail Rabbit, Douglas Squirrel, Townsend's Chipmunk, Harbor
Seal ( no deer!!)
Butterflies: Spring Azure, Silvery Blue, Mourning Cloak, Satyr Comma,
Cabbage White
Native Flora In Bloom: 29 species (e-mail me if you want the list)
Steve Ellis
Coupeville, Wa
sellis at coup.wednet.edu