Hi Tweets,

Yesterday 18 great folks made their way to Moses Lake to participate in the
annual CBC.

Highlights included:

New birds on the count:

Trumpeter Swan - 1
Wild Turkey - 3 (one on count week last year, but the first countable birds)

High Counts:

Double-crested Cormorant - new 15, old 10
Northern Shoveler - new 2230, old 1589
Red-tailed Hawk - new 59, old 58
American Kestrel - new 74, old 72
Merlin - new 6, old 4
Dunlin - new 51, old 35
Thayer's Gull - new 2, old 1
Bewick's Wren - new 13, old 11
Yellow-rumped Warbler - new 44, old 24
Dark-eyed Junco - new 1053, old 645
American Goldfinch - new 255, old 194

Tied High Counts:

Long-billed Dowitcher - 6
Glaucous Gull - 1
Northern Saw-whet Owl - 1
Winter Wren - 1

Other outstanding finds for the season or count:

Dark-eyed Junco (slate-colored) - 1
Snow Goose - 1
Greater White-fronted Goose - 4
Burrowing Owl - 2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 3
Bohemian Waxwing - 1
Barrow's Goldeneye - 3

We had 91 species for the count and counted 101,455 individuals.

The chili /clam chowder feed was outstanding and everyone had a great time
eating and visiting about the days birds.

My thanks to a great group of counters and tabulators and a special thanks
to my other half who worked so hard to put on the great feed.

Cheers

Doug Schonewald
Moses Lake, WA
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