Subject: [Tweeters] Mother's Day Weekend at Camp Orkila
Date: May 21 21:18:01 2012
From: Sharon Ellard - birders.2341 at comcast.net


For the last four years we?ve been taking our granddaughter to Orcas Island?s Camp Orkila family weekend where there are lots of activities for kids and a variety of habitats for birds: ocean, forest, meadow with small pond and marshes. This year there were a lot fewer waterbirds, some of the regulars were a little late arriving, but we still saw and/or heard the following (and others I may have omitted):

Canada Goose
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Warbling Vireo
American Crow
Violet-green Swallow
Barn Swallow
Black-capped Chickadee (just one song)
Bushtit
Red-breasted Nuthatch
American Robin
Swainson?s Thrush
European Starling
Orange-crowned Warbler
Black-throated Gray Warbler
White-crowned Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Spotted Towhee
House Finch
American Goldfinch
Dark-eyed Junco
Brewer?s Blackbird
Bald Eagle
Red-winged Blackbird
Savannah Sparrow
Wilson?s Warbler
Pacific Flycatcher
Pigeon Guillemot
Killdeer
Turkey Vulture
Pacific Wren
Virginia Rail
Sora (seen by another camper)

In 2010 we saw American White Pelicans fly over. There are other family weekends?Labor Day and Memorial Day?which we haven?t been to. The list would be much longer if we included everything we?ve seen and/or heard over the four years we?ve been doing this.

Sharon Ellard
Seattle, Washington
birders.2341 at comcast.net