Tweets -

This afternoon, I walked around the WDFW's Scatter Creek Wildlife Area
for the first time. Should have done this years ago. Hal Opperman's
recommendation in his guidebook is well-placed.

My big surprise was the number of Common Yellowthroat I heard and saw.
I customarily associate them with marshy areas, so hearing them on
prairie edges was a different experience. The same for Spotted Towhee.

Complete list:

This report was mailed for Doug Canning by http://birdnotes.net

Date: June 11, 2009
Location: Scatter Creek Wildlife Area, Thurston County, Washington

At the south unit, walked the 1.4-mile "short loop" around the edges
of the oak forest, walking into the forest short distances in places,
and also to the little pool in Scatter Creek, 1330 to 1530. Much bird
song and call heard which I'm unfamiliar with.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) 1 [1]
Rock Dove (Columba livia) 1 [2]
Rufous Hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus) 1
Willow Flycatcher (Empidonax traillii) 8 [3]
American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) 9
Common Raven (Corvus corax) 1 [4]
Red-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta canadensis) 2
Swainson's Thrush (Catharus ustulatus) 2 [5]
American Robin (Turdus migratorius) 18 [6]
Yellow Warbler (Dendroica petechia) 1 [7]
Common Yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas) 15 [8]
Western Tanager (Piranga ludoviciana) 1 [9]
Spotted Towhee (Pipilo maculatus) 4 [10]
White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys) 1
Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis) 1 [11]
American Goldfinch (Carduelis tristis) 1 [12]

Footnotes:

[1] Adult.
[2] At barn.
[3] Singing.
[4] Being harassed by 3 American Crow.
[5] One calling, 1 singing.
[6] Calling, singing, carrying food.
[7] Female.
[8] Pair seen; others heard.
[9] Male.
[10] Singing.
[11] At barn.
[12] Male.

Total number of species seen: 16

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Douglas Canning
Olympia, Wash.
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