Subject: [Tweeters] No Bluebirds
Date: Jun 9 11:43:18 2008
From: Don McVay - dmcvay at cmc.net


Hi Tweets,

We spent a couple of hours on Orcas Island Saturday morning search for
Barb Jenson's missing Bluebirds with no luck, sorry to say.?We began
at Spring Point about two miles in a direct line SW of Deer Harbor,
continued north to San Juan Preservation Trust, Richardson?s Wildlife
Area, SE across the Deer Harbor Estuary, to the Deer Harbor Marina and
SE to Pole Pass. We then retraced our route through Deer Harbor, to the
lower portion of the SJPT Turtleback Preserve stopping at likely
Bluebird habitat along our route.
Here is a list of the birds that we did observe or heard from first to
last:

American Robin
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
House Finch
Purple Finch
Northern Flicker
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Rhinoceros Auklet
Glaucous-winged Gull
Pacific-slope Flycatcher
Violet-green Swallow
Red-winged Blackbird
Marsh Wren
Great-blue heron
Gadwall
Mallard
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Rufous Humming Bird
Common Yellowthroat
Belted Kingfisher
Pigeon Guillemot (Several pairs breeding on the cliffs west of the Deer
Harbor Marina)
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Savannah Sparrow
Starling
House Wren
Band-tailed Pigeon
Spotted Towhee
Canada Geese
Common Raven
Dark-eyed Junco
Cliff Swallow
Killdeer
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Swainson?s Thrush
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Townsend?s Warbler
Bald Eagle
American Crow
Brown-headed Cowbird
Pine Siskin
Red Crossbill
Orange-crowned Warbler

?Don and Sandi McVay
dmcvay at cmc.net
Orcas Island and Seattle