Second Post 2.12.13
- Coming from Nash's carrot fields, 128 Trumpeter swans flew over Dungeness in nine separate flocks at dusk, landing in Les Jones' marsh. There were also seven Tundra swans in two groups that came over and went into the marsh - they were talking all the way in.
- Martha, the Anatum peregrine who's been here all winter, was on her perch-snag this evening in the Dungeness marsh area SE of 3 Crabs. She sat there unabashed with what looked like a peep in her talons.
- Off Port Williams this afternoon there was an assortment of birds: Ancient murrelet, Marbled murrelet, Guillemots, Pelagic cormies, DC cormies, Bufflehead, Common goldeneye, Eared grebe, Horned grebe, Red necked grebe, Western grebe, Common loon, Pacific loon, a possible Yellow billed loon way out there, Brant, American and several Eurasian wigeon, Oldsquaw [Long tailed duck], Greater scaup, Surf scoter, White winged scoter, Red breasted merganser, Glaucous winged gull, Olympic gull, Mew gull, Ring billed gull, Common murre, Rhinos, and Western gull were all doing their thing.
- Marsh wrens are beginning to challenge each other. Territorial singing has begun in earnest even tho breeding is still a few months away.
- Virginia rail [x3] were calling at dusk in the marshes SE of 3 Crabs.
- Barn owl [x3] and Short eared owl [x1] were seen at dusk over the same marshes. Two Great horned owls were calling from the woods back along the Dungeness river in Dungeness. This pair is nesting in an old Beagle [Bald eagle] nest back along the river; by now she should be sitting on eggs.
- Myrtle [Yellow rumped] and Townsend warbler continue to be seen in the central area of Dungeness and along the face of Dungeness Bay feeding through deciduous trees.
