Hi All: Here is listing from our monthly field trip, pretty good showing.


Species with location results separated by comma ------Portage east
(Tramp Harbor),Portage west,Audubon member's house (east side outer Quartermaster Harbor).

X=more than 1, 0= not seen, numbers indicate counts



Eurasian x American Wigeon------0,0,1
American Wigeon ------large flock flew over,X,X
Greater Scaup ------1,0,8+(2 groups)
Surf Scoter ------many,few,many
White-winged Scoter------few,many,many
Black Scoter ------0,0,8 (5 males, 3 fems minimum) - Thanks again to Bob
Bufflehead------many,X,X
Common Goldeneye ------1,X,X
Barrow's Goldeneye ------maybe,X,X
Red-breasted Merganser------X,0,X
Common Loon ------X,X,X
Horned Grebe ------X,X,X
Red-necked Grebe------.X,0,X
Western Grebe ------0,0,38
Eared Grebe------7 (minimum),0,1
Bald Eagle------0,1,0
Double-crested Cormorant------X,X,X
Mew Gull ------X,0,X
Glaucous-winged Gull ------X,0,X
Pigeon Guillemot ------2(3 at 8 am),0,0
Anna's Hummingbird------0,0,1
American Crow ------0,X,0
Spotted Towhee ------1,0,0
Dark-eyed Junco------X,0,0
Song Sparrow------0,1,0
Pine Siskin------0,3,0


Additional species - Canada Goose fly by at Dockton, Common
Merganser at Shawnee at 8:30 am, and Harlequin's found by Bob Hawkins after the field trip..
I stopped at Fisher Pond after the field trip, there were Hooded Mergansers
(3 male and 1 female) displaying for about 10 min, great show (see them
virtually at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udoOh65p48Q ). The video is not HD and
youtube upload results in further degrading, but still fun to watch them.Also at Fisher, mallards, wigeon, gw teal, ring-necked ducks, many
wood ducks.

Also check out Dennis Paulson's duck mating blog posting at http://slatermuseum.blogspot.com/2010/11/duck-mating-goes-on-and-on-and-on.html.

Gary Shugart. Slater Museum of Natural History University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA 98416 & Vashon Island