[Tweeters] Fwd: Nisqually on Wednesday

[Kenneth Brown]

>     ---------- Original Message ----------

>     From: Kenneth Brown <kenbrownpls at comcast.net>

>     To: "tweeters-owner at mailman11.u.washington.edu" <tweeters-owner at mailman11.u.washington.edu>

>     Date: 11/17/2022 9:48 AM

>     Subject: Nisqually on Wednesday

> 

> 

>     Two dozen of us Billy Frank-ophiles attended the walk on a chilly but clear beautiful day.  The light this time of year seems to bring unusual visual clarity.  This is a time of transition when we witness the return of the winter waterfowl species and the waning but still present shore birds.  Nature reminds us that even as the daylight shrinks and problems weigh on us, the world is still a wonderous place.  Among the highlights, a solo Black-bellied Plover hanging with the Short-billed gulls, a persistent Red-shouldered Hawk again put in an appearance,  a Northern Shrike claimed it's territory from the top of a leafless alder, joined lower in the tree by 5 Western Meadowlarks.  The complete ebird report follows:

> 

>     Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually NWR, Thurston, Washington, US

>     Nov 16, 2022 8:00 AM - 4:01 PM

>     Protocol: Traveling

>     6.35 mile(s)

>     Checklist Comments:     Wednesday Walk.  The day was Overcast until early afternoon, with a south breeze at 3-8 knots and 34-50° F.  There was a +1.4-foot low tide at 4:30 this morning, flooding toward a +13.3-foot high water at 12:15 p.m.  Other species seen included eastern grey squirrel, Columbian black-tailed deer, harbor seals, lots of Isabella tiger moth larvae (woolly bears).

>     70 species (+8 other taxa)

> 

>     Cackling Goose (minima)  1400

>     Cackling Goose (Taverner's)  85

>     Trumpeter/Tundra Swan  5

>     Wood Duck  2

>     Northern Shoveler  45

>     Gadwall  45

>     Eurasian Wigeon  1     Drake

>     American Wigeon  635

>     Mallard  425

>     Northern Pintail  735

>     Green-winged Teal (American)  1555

>     dabbling duck sp.  1100     Large flocks on mudflats during ebb tide; estimated by x100s

>     Ring-necked Duck  1

>     Lesser Scaup  4

>     Surf Scoter  8

>     scoter sp.  50

>     Bufflehead  165

>     Common Goldeneye  45

>     Common Merganser  1

>     Red-breasted Merganser  4

>     Horned Grebe  4

>     Western Grebe  1

>     Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  8

>     Eurasian Collared-Dove  1

>     Anna's Hummingbird  2

>     Virginia Rail  1     Vocalized from cattail marsh

>     American Coot  13

>     Black-bellied Plover  1

>     Killdeer  5

>     Dunlin  25

>     Least Sandpiper  165

>     Wilson's Snipe  1

>     Spotted Sandpiper  1

>     Greater Yellowlegs  28

>     Bonaparte's Gull  9

>     Short-billed Gull  110

>     Ring-billed Gull  135

>     Western x Glaucous-winged Gull (hybrid)  5

>     Western/Glaucous-winged Gull  4

>     gull sp.  300

>     Common Loon  3

>     Brandt's Cormorant  8

>     Double-crested Cormorant  28

>     Great Blue Heron  16

>     Northern Harrier  3

>     Sharp-shinned Hawk  1

>     Bald Eagle  12

>     Red-shouldered Hawk (elegans)  1     *Continuing; Red breast, barred tail.

>     Red-tailed Hawk (calurus/alascensis)  3

>     Belted Kingfisher  4

>     Red-breasted Sapsucker  1

>     Downy Woodpecker (Pacific)  2

>     Pileated Woodpecker  1     Vocalized from Nisqually River trees

>     Northern Flicker  5

>     Northern Flicker (Red-shafted)  1

>     Peregrine Falcon  2

>     Northern Shrike  1

>     American Crow  65

>     Black-capped Chickadee  9

>     Chestnut-backed Chickadee  2

>     Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1

>     Golden-crowned Kinglet  22

>     Brown Creeper  4

>     Pacific Wren  10

>     Marsh Wren  4

>     Bewick's Wren  5

>     European Starling  75

>     Varied Thrush  1

>     American Robin  14

>     Purple Finch (Western)  4     One male showed quite a bit of yellow in his plumage

>     American Goldfinch  50

>     Fox Sparrow (Sooty)  1

>     Golden-crowned Sparrow  18

>     Song Sparrow  30

>     Spotted Towhee (oregonus Group)  8

>     Western Meadowlark  5

>     Red-winged Blackbird  48

>     Yellow-rumped Warbler (Audubon's)  4

> 

>     View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S122542906

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