[Tweeters] Wednesday at Nisqually.

[Kenneth Brown]

Winter is coming.  This morning the weather gods let us know that the warm and dry weather regime we have been spoiled by this fall, has really come to an end.  That resulted in less than usual, birders and birds.  About 15 of us attended some portion of the walk.  Some were rewarded by the sight of a Black-throated Gray Warbler and a Townsend's Warbler.  The change of seasons meant fewer shorebirds and more waterfowl.  The species seen are as follows: 

Cackling Goose  1500
Canada Goose  200
Trumpeter Swan  10
Wood Duck  8
Northern Shoveler  5
Gadwall  5
Eurasian Wigeon  1
American Wigeon  1000
Mallard  350
Northern Pintail  400
Green-winged Teal  1500
Ring-necked Duck  1
Bufflehead  2
Hooded Merganser  4
Pied-billed Grebe  2
Horned Grebe  4
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  20
Anna's Hummingbird  1
American Coot  1
Least Sandpiper  24
peep sp.  35
Wilson's Snipe  5
Greater Yellowlegs  25
Short-billed Gull  5
Ring-billed Gull  250
Glaucous-winged Gull  1
Western x Glaucous-winged Gull (hybrid)  6
Brandt's Cormorant  6
Double-crested Cormorant  20
Great Blue Heron  12
Bald Eagle  10
Belted Kingfisher  2
Downy Woodpecker  1
Northern Flicker  2
Merlin  1
Peregrine Falcon  2
American Crow  75
Black-capped Chickadee  40
Chestnut-backed Chickadee  2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  4
Golden-crowned Kinglet  30
Brown Creeper  4
Pacific Wren  2
Marsh Wren  1
Bewick's Wren  3
European Starling  400
American Robin  75
Cedar Waxwing  25
American Goldfinch  5
Fox Sparrow  2
White-crowned Sparrow  1
Savannah Sparrow  3
Song Sparrow  15
Spotted Towhee  5
Red-winged Blackbird  26
Orange-crowned Warbler  2
Yellow-rumped Warbler  4
Black-throated Gray Warbler  1     Seen by several birders, in a mixed flock with Townsend's Warbler, Yellow-rumped Warbler, both Kinglets, BC Chickadees, Brown Creepers.
Townsend's Warbler  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S121766429
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