14 birders on a beautiful, sunny, calm day spent a day of birding in the Olympia. Two were from Olympia/Shelton area and joined us at Priest Pt. We started at Priest Pt., then back to East Bay, North Point, Percival Landing, Capitol Lake for lunch outside in the sun, Mud Bay, Perry Creek, McLane Creek Nature Trail and finally Olympia Watershed Park. Highlights of the trip were two Western Scrub-Jays and a number of Townsend's Warblers at the west side of East Bay and a Barred Owl in the Olympia Watershed Park. We ended up with a total of 44 species. The complete list is:
Double-crested Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Canada Goose
American Wigeon
Gadwall
Green-winged Teal
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup
Surf Scoter
Common Goldeneye
Barrow's Goldeneye
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Bald Eagle
Red-tailed Hawk
American Coot
Greater Yellowlegs
Dunlin
Mew Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Rock Pigeon
Barred Owl
Belted Kingfisher
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Winter Wren
American Robin
Varied Thrush
Black-capped Chickadee
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Brown Creeper
Western Scrub-Jay
American Crow
Townsend's Warbler
Song Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird

Hugh Jennings
Bellevue, WA
hughbirder AT earthlink.net