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