[Tweeters] Nisqually Wednesday

[Kenneth Brown]

The usual Wednesday Walk at Nisqually was different this week.  Missing was our leader, Shep Thorp, and the ever stalwart Jon Andersen, both having ventured off to bird in Alaska.  Either their absence, or possibly the crappy February in May weather, resulted in an unusually small showing of Nisqually regulars. Only five of us set forth in the morning, and then it tapered off.  To catch the tide we headed out to the dike, losing a couple to the brisk wind and sideways rain.  The view from the Puget Sound viewing station was obscured by dense fog and steady rain. Without the eyes, ears and brains of so many good birders, we dipped on several usual species.  The highlight of the day was seeing 2 Bullock Oriole, a male and female foraging together.  The list follows.


50 Canada Geese
2  Wood Duck
4  N. Shoveler
3  Gadwall
16 Mallards + 1 mallard /domestic hybrid
4  Green-wing Teal
3  Ring-neck Ducks
13  Hooded Mergansers
4  Common Mergansers
50  Vaux's Swift
1   Anna's Hummingbird
18  Whimbrel
30  Ring-billed Gull
8 Western x Glaucous winged gull
50  Gull Species
90  Caspian Tern
8  Great Blue Heron
2  Northern Harrier
12  Bald Eagle
1   Red-breasted Sapsucker
2  Northern Flicker
2  Western Wood-Pewee
3  Willow Flycatcher
4  Warbling Vireo
1  Steller's Jay
15  American Crow
2  Black-capped Chickadee
5 Norther Rough-winged Swallow
1  Purple Martin
50  Tree Swallow
150  Violet-Green Swallow
2  Bank Swallow
100  Barn Swallow
50  Cliff Swallow
4  Marsh Wren
2  Bewick's Wren
20  European Starling
8  Swainson's Thrush
25  American Robin
12  Cedar Waxwing
1  Purple Finch
5  American Goldfinch
2  Savannah Sparrow
15  Song Sparrow
2 Bullock's Oriole
15  Red-winged Blackbird
2  Brown-headed Cowbird
1  Orange-crowned Warbler
12  Common Yellowthroat
20  Yellow Warbler
25  Yellow-rumped Warbler
1  Wilson's Warbler
2  Western Tanager
8  Black-headed Grosbeak
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