Subject: [Tweeters] Nisqually NWR, 4/27/08
Date: Apr 27 16:21:13 2008
From: Dennis Paulson - dennispaulson at comcast.net


Netta Smith and I spent 3-1/2 hours in Nisqually Refuge this morning,
walking around the loop trail. This is what we saw (no scope to
identify distant water birds on Puget Sound, and many birds on bay
shore unidentifiable, but definitely no shorebirds among them).

Greater White-fronted Goose 4
Canada Goose 50
Cackling Goose 20
Wood Duck 20 (most I've ever seen there, mostly males)
American Wigeon 20
Mallard 75
Cinnamon Teal 15
Northern Shoveler 150
Northern Pintail 50
Green-winged Teal 300 (including many on shore)
Ring-necked Duck 5
Bufflehead 40
Common Goldeneye 1
Hooded Merganser 2
Common Merganser 20
Red-breasted Merganser 1
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Great Blue Heron 7
Osprey 1
Bald Eagle 5
Northern Harrier 2
Red-tailed Hawk 3
American Coot 40
Killdeer 1
BLACK-NECKED STILT - male and female at pond on S side of trail W of
visitor center, only surprise
Greater Yellowlegs 10
Least Sandpiper 20
Dunlin 1
Mew Gull 5
Ring-billed Gull 15
Glaucous-winged Gull 10
distant gulls 40
Caspian Tern 10
Rufous Hummingbird 4
Belted Kingfisher 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
Pileated Woodpecker 1
Steller's Jay 1
American/Northwestern Crow 10
Tree Swallow 50
Violet-green Swallow 1
N. Rough-winged Swallow 3
Cliff Swallow 40
Barn Swallow 10
Black-capped Chickadee 7
Bushtit 2
Bewick's Wren 8
Marsh Wren 15
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 (surprisingly few)
American Robin 10
European Starling 10
Orange-crowned Warbler 5
Yellow-rumped Warbler 250 (about 70% Audubon's, 30% Myrtle)
Common Yellowthroat 15
Savannah Sparrow 10
Fox Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 40
White-crowned Sparrow 10
Golden-crowned Sparrow 40
Red-winged Blackbird 25
Purple Finch 5
Pine Siskin 3
American Goldfinch 10

65 species, a nice total for a morning's walk.

MAMMALS:
Eastern Gray Squirrel 1
Muskrat 1
River Otter 1
friendly kitty-cat 1 (the refuge people assured us they would remove
it as soon as they found a home for it)

HERPS:
scattered Pacific Chorus Frogs calling

We looked and looked and looked and never saw a Gadwall, which
surprised me.
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Dennis Paulson
1724 NE 98 St.
Seattle, WA 98115
206-528-1382
dennispaulson at comcast.net



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