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November 20, 2004

The WOS trip on Saturday was a good one. The eight participants were Jim McCoy, Kathy Andrich, Ollie and Grace Oliver, Roger and Jean Leed, Michael West, and myself.  We visited Rosario Head, Pass and Campbell Lakes, Green Point, March's Point, the parking lot of the Farmhouse Inn, and the Fir Island Game Range.

We identified around 70 species. Besides the 68 shown below, there was a probably Cooper's Hawk, and some scaups that we could not agree on.

Common Loon, Red-throated Loon, Red-necked Grebe, Horned Grebe, Double-crested Cormorant, Pelagic Cormorant, Brandt's Cormorant, GREEN HERON (Game Range), Great Blue Heron, Mallard, Northern Pintail, Greater Scaup, Bufflehead, Common Goldeneye, White-winged Scoter, Surf Scoter, Oldsquaw, Harlequin Duck, Common Merganser, Red-breasted Merganser, Hooded Merganser, Bald Eagle, Red-tailed Hawk, Rough-legged Hawk, Merlin, California Quail, American Coot, Killdeer, Dunlin, Black Turnstone (8+ @ usual March's Point pier), Spotted Sandpiper (1 at Rosario), Glaucous-winged Gull, Mew Gull, ANCIENT MURRELET (3, Rosario), Marbled Murrelet, Common Murre, Rhinoceros Auklet, Pigeon Guillemot, ANNA's HUMMINGBIRD (1, Green Point), Great Horned Owl, Belted Kingfisher, Rock Pigeon, Mourning Dove, Hairy Woodpecker, Downy Woodpecker, Northern Flicker, American Robin, Varied Thrush, Eurasian Starling, Black-capped Chickadee, Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Brown Creeper, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Bewick's Wren, Winter Wren, Marsh Wren, American Crow, Spotted Towhee, Oregon Junco, Song Sparrow, Fox Sparrow, Golden-crowned Sparrow, Brewer's Blackbird, House Finch, Red Crossbill, Pine Siskin.

We had multiple sightings of many of the seabirds at both Rosario Head and Green Point. March's Point was rather slow, but the Turnstones made up for the lack of large duck flocks. The only Brant we saw were a set of giant-sized decoys surrounding a hunter's boat out on Padilla Bay.