Subject: [Tweeters] Redhaed on Black Lake, Thurston
Date: Feb 16 16:24:05 2007
From: Douglas Canning - dcanning at zhonka.net


Tweets -

This afternoon I found a male Redhead in a raft of American Wigeon.
Complete observations below in BirdNotes report.

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

Date: February 16, 2007
Location: Black Lake, Thurston County, Washington

Low temperature: 12 degrees celsius
High temperature: 12 degrees celsius
Prevailing wind speed: < 1 km/h
Percentage of sky covered by clouds: 100%
Precipitation: showers/intermittent rain

Observing the north end of the lake from my observation station on
Black Lake - Belmore Road near the lake outlet between 1325 and 1400.
A boat with 2 fishermen cruised through at 1350 scattering everything.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) 4
Gadwall (Anas strepera) 5 [1]
Eurasian Wigeon (Anas penelope) 1 [2]
American Wigeon (Anas americana) 145 [3]
Redhead (Aythya americana) 1 [4]
Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola) 4 [5]
Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) 8 [6]
Pied-billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps) 3
Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) 13
Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) 2 [7]

Footnotes:

[1] 2 males, 3 females.
[2] Male.
[3] ~~ 2:1 male:female.
[4] Male.
[5] 1 male, 3 female.
[6] 6 male, 2 female.
[7] Males heard.

Total number of species seen: 10

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Douglas Canning
Olympia, Washington
dcanning at zhonka.net
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