Saturday, February 16, 2013

Sixth Post 2.16.13

From the West End moving East
Neah Bay
  • Bruce Paige shares this: ". . . what are the odds of seeing a Swamp sparrow in the same partially-cut roadside bramble patch two months later?  Well, I did. Probably an over-wintering individual. I 'pisshed' the area first with no results, continued a hundred yards or so to the Transfer Station, and when I got back, saw a Song sparrow and Swamp sparrow where nothing had been visible a few minutes before. The incident just emphasizes how many birds are missed compared to the number seen!" 
Clallam Bay
  • Thayer's gull
  • Herring gull
Twin Rivers
  • Ancient murrelet
  • Whimbrel
  • Marbled godwit
Salt Creek
  • Black oystercatcher
  • Black turnstone
  • Ruddy turnstone
Elwha River 
  • Thayer's gull
  • Herring gull
  • California gull 
  • Glaucous gull / 1st year
  • Ring billed gull
  • Mew gull
  • Bonaparte's gull
  • Western gull
  • Glaucous winged gull
  • and the hybrid seagull of the usual kind  
Ediz Hook
  • Thick billed murre continues 
  • Surfbird
ONP - Hurricane Ridge
  • Horned lark / in the snow! 
  • Gray jay
Kitchen Dick Ponds
  • Swamp sparo 
Marine & Thornton
  • Bullock's oriole / Day 9 at feeders
Jamestown
  • Merlin dark phase
  • Merlin light phase
  • Peale's peregrine falcon
  • Anatum peregrine falcon
  • Collared doves / noted only by this: 32! 
Golden Sands Blvd Sloughs
  • Redhead / one female with 100s of Wigeons