Point Wilson

Time 1030-1330, skies cloudy, 3 foot swell, wind 8 mph, temp. 42 degrees,
tide outgoing.



Bald Eagle,

Western Grebe, 2

Red-necked Grebe, 1

Horned Grebe, 1

Red-throated Loon, 3

Pacific loon, 16

Pelagic Cormorant, 8

Double-crested Cormorant, 6

Brandt's Cormorant, 1

Common Murre, 27

Pigeon Guillemot, 10

Marbled Murrelet, 3

Ancient Murrelet, 32

Glaucous-winged Gull, 4

Glaucous-winged Hybrid, 6

Mew Gull, 13

Black Brant, 1

Surf Scoter, 18

White-winged Scoter, 5

Harlequin Duck, 16

Bufflehead, 15

Common Goldeneye, 1

Red-breasted Merganser, 11

Black Oystercatcher, 2

Dunlin, 3

Western Meadowlark, 1 *

Song Sparrow, 2



* A first for me at Point Wilson



Yard observations



Common Raven, 2

Dark-eyed Junco, 28

Gold-crowned Kinglet, 28



The Gold-crowned Kinglets showed up here on 12-25. Does anyone know where
they have come from? They arrive here in late December stay for a few weeks,
maybe three and then are gone, at times as many as 30 of them in the yard at
once.















Bob Whitney

Port Townsend, WA

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