Subject: [Tweeters] Discovery Park Birds 1/13/09
Date: Jan 13 15:36:02 2009
From: Mark & Maurie Kirschner - mnmkirschner at gmail.com
Tweeters,
I've moved back to Seattle after close to four years down in Olympia and
have started birding out at Discovery Park again, it's like meeting up with
an old friend! I'm going to be doing regular walks out there on Tuesday
mornings, so if you are interested in joining me, just let me know. I'm
splitting the park in half, doing the North sections and South sections on
alternating weeks.
Today I did the North section and started from the visitor center at 8:30
and birded till about 12:45. It was a very birdy day, with many large mixed
flocks as well as calm waters on the Sound making for some good birding.
I had 43 species today, including a flock of 100+ Snow Geese that flew
over. I didn't see any Alcids out on the water, I tried to turn a couple
very distant White-winged Scoters into Pigeon Guillemots and an equally
distant Buffelhead into a Murrelet, but it just didn't work. I would chalk
it up to not having a scope, but I came across someone who did and they had
yet to see them either. Overall a very enjoyable birding day. I also saw
three River Otters.
Here's the complete list:
Snow Goose (100+) flying northwest over sewage treatment center
Gadwall
American Widgeon
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Greater Scaup
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Buffelhead
Barrow's Goldeneye
Red-breasted Merganzer
Red-throated Loon
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Western Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Bald Eagle (1 immature just starting to get little bits of white on it)
Mew Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Anna's Hummingbird (at least 4 different places)
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Hutton's Vireo
American Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Bewick's Wren
Winter Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
American Robin
European Starling
Spotted Towhee
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Purple Finch
House Finch
Pine Siskin
Maurie Kirschner (Seattle)
mnmkirschner at gmail dot com