Natalie and I made a Birdathon journey today, starting at Titlow Beach
in Tacoma around 7 a.m. and working our way east to end the day with 126
species viewed when we left the Para Ponds at 7:45 p.m. The highlight of
the trip was viewing WILSON'S PHALAROPES and a single BURROWING OWL at
Birder's Corner, and a pair of RED-NECKED PHALAROPES at the County Line
Ponds along State Route 26 near Othello.

Our list from today's trip follows, with each new species for the day
grouped at the site they were seen:

Home -
1. Wilson's Warbler
2. Bewick's Wren
3. American Robin
4. European Starling
5. House Sparrow
6. Black-capped Chickadee
7. American Crow
8. Dark-eyed Junco

Titlow Beach Park -
9. Purple Martin (18)
10. Pigeon Guillemot
11. California Gull
12. Violet-green Swallow
13. Common Goldeneye
14. Ring-billed Gull
15. Canada Goose
16. Song Sparrow
17. Spotted Towhee
18. Bushtit
19. Pileated Woodpecker
20. Anna's Hummingbird
21. American Goldfinch
22. Rock Pigeon
23. White-crowned Sparrow
24. Warbling Vireo

Commencement Bay (Ruston Way, Dock Street) -
25. Bald Eagle (just missed on an attempt to take a goose right in front
of us)
26. Caspian Tern
27. Mallard
28. Barn Swallow
29. Spotted Sandpiper (two near the old Asarco site)
30. Double-crested Cormorant
31. Steller's Jay
32. Western Grebe
33. Great Blue Heron
34. Glaucous-winged Gull
35. Orange-crowned Warbler
36. Peregrine Falcon (on the Murray Morgan Bridge in downtown Tacoma)
37. Tree Swallow
38. Northern Rough-winged Swallow

Gog-le-hi-ti Wetlands (Tacoma Tideflats) -
39. Killdeer
40. Common Yellowthroat
41. Yellow Warbler
42. Western Tanager

Green River Road (King County) -
43. Belted Kingfisher
44. Cedar Waxwing
45. Northern Flicker
46. Common Merganser
47. American Kestrel
48. Red-tailed Hawk
49. Savannah Sparrow
50. Red-winged Blackbird
51. Fox Sparrow

Snoqualmie Summit -
52. Vaux's Swift
53. Common Raven
54. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
55. Brown-headed Cowbird

Gold Creek -
56. Rufous Hummingbird
57. American Dipper

Cle Elum -
58. Osprey
59. Brewer's Blackbird
60. Black-billed Magpie

Cle Elum Airport Road -
61. Red-breasted Nuthatch
62. California Quail
63. Olive-sided Flycatcher
64. Sharp-shinned Hawk

Teanaway River (Red Bridge Road) -
65. Black-headed Grosbeak
66. Yellow-rumped Warbler
67. Nashville Warbler

Swauk Prairie -
68. Western Meadowlark
69. Western Bluebird
70. Western Wood-Pewee
71. Mountain Bluebird
72. Mourning Dove
73. White-breasted Nuthatch
74. Chipping Sparrow
75. Horned Lark
76. Vesper Sparrow
77. Turkey Vulture
78. Mountain Chickadee
79. Western Kingbird

Bettas Road (Off Highway 97) -
80. House Wren
81. House Finch

Old Vantage Highway -
82. Sage Thrasher
83. Sage Sparrow
84. Brewer's Sparrow
85. Loggerhead Shrike
86. Chukar

Gingko State Park Ranger Residence -
87. Golden-crowned Sparrow (3)
88. Say's Phoebe
89. Pacific-slope Flycatcher
90. Bullock's Oriole
91. Cassin's Finch
92. Horned Grebe
93. Rock Wren

Huntzinger Road (Vantage) -
94. Cliff Swallow
95. Common Loon
96. American White Pelican
97. Ring-necked Pheasant
98. Greater Scaup
99. Lark Sparrow

Dodson Road -
100. Yellow-headed Blackbird
101. Forster's Tern (4)
102. American Coot
103. Redhead
104. Great Egret
105. Black-necked Stilt
106. Cinnamon Teal
107. Blue-winged Teal
108. American Wigeon
109. Marsh Wren
110. Burrowing Owl
111. Northern Harrier
112. Long-billed Curlew (2)
113. Wilson's Snipe
114. Ring-necked Duck
115. Gadwall
116. Wilson's Phalarope
117. Long-billed Dowitcher
118. Bank Swallow
119. Eastern Kingbird

County Line Ponds -
120. American Avocet
121. Red-necked Phalarope
122. Green-winged Teal

Para Ponds -
123. Ruddy Duck
124. Northern Shoveler
125. Pied-billed Grebe

What a great day to be birding!

--
Rob McNair-Huff ---------- Tacoma, WA
Author of Birding Washington (Falcon Publishing, 2004)
and Insider's Guide to the Olympic Peninsula (Globe Pequot, 2001)
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