Subject: [Tweeters] Lopez Island Birding
Date: Sep 9 21:04:39 2009
From: Hugh Jennings - h2ouzel at comcast.net


My wife and I recently spent three days on our first visit to Lopez Island. I went to eBird to see if anyone had posted bird sightings and locations for Lopez, but couldn't find any. We visited all of the parks, beaches, water accesses we could find. I believe we found most of them. Now that AviSys revised their database to make it easy to export sightings to eBird I was able to post the info on eBird.

Spencer Spit SP
Spotted Towhee
Greater Yellowlegs - 2 up closer for good photos
California Gulls - 10+
Ring-billed Gull - 40+
Glaucous-winged Gulls - 2
Pigeon Guillemot - 2
Great Blue Heron - 1
Western Sandpiper - 12 up close for more good photos

Fisherman Bay Preserve Spit - 2 visits
Barn Swallows - 3
Great Blue Heron - 8
Turkey Vulture - 1
Bald Eagle - 1
Double-crested Cormorant - 4
Ring-billed Gull - 60+
Glaucous-winged Gull - 10
Caspian Tern - 2
Northern Pintail - 24
Western Sandpiper - 35
Heermann's Gull - 6
Pigeon Guillemot - 1
Red-necked Grebe - 1
Rhinocerus Auklet - 2
Sempalmated Plover - 7
Western Grebe - 1
Killdeer - 1
Califronia Gull -2
Canada Goose - 10

Upright Channel Park
Common Raven - 2
Glaucous-winged Gull - 12
Great Blue Heron - 1
Mew Gull - 1
Killdeer - 1
Turkey Vultures - 3 feeding on seal pup carcass on beach
House Finch- 3
American Robin - 2

Shark Reef Park Sanctuary - includes1/2 mile walk thru woods - beautiful coastal area
Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1
Heermann's Gull - 40+
Glaucous-winged Gull - 10+
Califronia Gull - 3
Turkey Vulture - 1
Harlequin Ducks - 5
Black Oystercatcher - 2
Cormorant sp. - 60+ on distant island - too far to ID
Song Sparrow - 1
Winter Wren - 1
Spotted Towhee - 1
also large numbers of harbor seals on rocks

MacKaye Harbor
Hooded Merganser - 1
Mallard - 8
Great Blue Heron - 1
American/? Northwestern Crow - 3
California Gull - 7
Glaucous-winged Gull - 10
Turkey Vulture - 2
Belted Kingfisher - 1
Black Oystercatcher - 2 close enough for photos

Agate Beach Park - near MacKaye Harbor
Great Blue Heron - 2
Glaucous-winged Gull - 3
Killdeer - 6
Pigeon Guillemot - 3
Belted Kingfisher - 1

Iceberg Point - trail, about 1/2 mile thru woods, starts near Agate Beach park
American Robin - 1
Northern Flicker - 1
Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1
Heermann's Gull - 60+
Califronia Gull - 90+
Glaucous-winged Gull - 30+
Black Oystercatcher - 2
White-crowned Sparrow - 3
Spotted Towhee - 1
Willow Flycatcher - 1
also large numbers of harbor seals on the rocky islands off the point.

Other birds seen in island interior - Red-tailed Hawk - Pileated Woodpecker - Northern Harrier

Hugh Jennings
Bellevue, WA
h2ouzel AT comcast.net