Hi all,


Delia and I got to Lake Sammamish State Park this am at 7:40 and left four hours later, just as the smell of lighter fluid began to waft throught?the air.

We took 13,100 steps apiece so our birds-per-step was 1 per 225 with one new bird every 4.13 minutes.?? Lake Sammamish is really a good place for birds.

At one point Delia made the understatement, "Gee, there are a lot of Yellow-rumped Warblers here."? Also, we were relieved to have decent?presence?of Rufous Hummers in the Salmonberry areas and good numbers of Tree Swallows fighting over nest-sites.? Here's the list:

1. American Crow
2. Tree Swallow
3? Dark-eyed Junco
4? Mallard
5. American Robin
6.?Anna's Hummingbird
7. American Goldfinch
8. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
9.?Rufous Hummingbird
10. Great Blue Heron?????? The Heronry?appears to be going good this year so far
11. Bufflehead
12. BAND-TAILED PIGEON? one in flyover
13. Canada Geese
14. Eurasian Starling
15. PILEATED WOODPECKER
16. Green-winged Teal
17. Red-winged Blackbird
18. Song Sparrow
19. White-corwned Sparrow
20. COMMON YELLOWTHROAT?? singing and in really good numbers
21. Downy Woodpecker
22. Red-breasted Nuthatch
23. COMMON RAVEN? 2 seperate flyovers.? Didn't seem unusual at all but either bookeeping error or something because it wasn't on our life list for the park.
24. Chestnut-backed Chickadee
25. Brown Creeper????????? Many!
26. Spotted Towhee
27. NASHVILLE WARBLER??? One brightly colored male
28. Bushtit
29. Bald Eagle????? A young likely female dove repeatedly at two Common Mergansers; we thought she was just playing because she never got close to them and they barely paid attention.
30.? Common Merganser
31. Gadwall
32. Violet-green Swallow?????? few
33. American Wigeon
34? Black-capped Chickadee
35. Brown-headed Cowbird
36. Killdeer
37. Glaucous-winged Gull
38. Bewick's Wren
39? Hooded Merganser
40? Belted Kingfisher
42? GREEN HERON?? one at Issaquah Creek
43. Purple Finch??
44. Savannah Sparrow
45. Golden-crowned Kinglet
46. Golden-crowned Sparrow
47. ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER
48.?Pine Siskin
49? Northern Flicker
50? ROUGH-WINGED SWALLOW
51.? Red-tailed Hawk
52.? Steller's Jay
53.? Red-breasted Sapsucker
54?? AMERICAN PIPIT?? One in the middle parking lot
55.? MOURNING DOVE??? This wasn't on our life list for the park
56.? Osprey?????????????????????with a fish
57?? American Coot
58?? Common Goldeneye




Here on Beacon Hill, we've only had one?Orange-crowned Warbler so far at our recirculating creek.? Our Violet-green Swallows have taken possession of a box but have not begun building a nest.



Thanks,

Ed Newbold? ednewbold1 at yahoo.com? Beacon Hill Seattle




47. Orange-crowned Warbler???????
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