[Tweeters] Wednesday at Nisqually.

[Kenneth Brown]

It felt like summer today at Nisqually, though the calendar and the attending species say it's late spring.  28 or so of us again followed our default route, in the orchard where the diligent Bushtits still feed their apparently ravenous young, we failed to find Western Tanagers but saw instead a Townsend's Warbler, Rufous and an Anna's Hummingbirds, and a lone Mourning Dove.  The flooded field(s) west of the Twin Barns access road yielded most of the duck species seen today, including Green, Cinnamon, and Blue-winged Teal (FOY).  Also a FOY was a Wilson's Phalarope, hanging with three Long-billed Dowitchers. We had a good day for flycatchers, Willow Flycatchers were seen, Western Wood-peewees and Olive-sided, as well as a Pacific-slope Flycatcher were heard.  The exposed mud of low tide yielded no shorebirds excepting 11 Whimbrel, and smaller numbers of Gulls and Cormorants. The comprehensive checklist follows: 
 
Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually NWR, Thurston, Washington, US
May 17, 2023 7:57 AM - 3:52 PM
Protocol: Traveling
5.58 mile(s)
Checklist Comments:     Mammals seen:  Coyote, Eastern Gray squirrel, Long-tailed Weasel, Mink with kit, Cotton-tailed Rabbit.
76 species (+2 other taxa)

Canada Goose  150
Wood Duck  12
Blue-winged Teal  4
Cinnamon Teal  6
Northern Shoveler  12
American Wigeon  6
Mallard  40
Northern Pintail  6
Green-winged Teal  2
Ring-necked Duck  1
Lesser Scaup  1
Bufflehead  2
Hooded Merganser  6
Pied-billed Grebe  2
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  2
Mourning Dove  1
Anna's Hummingbird  1
Rufous Hummingbird  6
Virginia Rail  1
Sora  2
American Coot  20
Killdeer  1
Whimbrel  11
Long-billed Dowitcher  3
Wilson's Phalarope  1
Ring-billed Gull  25
California Gull  15
Glaucous-winged Gull  5
Western x Glaucous-winged Gull (hybrid)  10
Western/Glaucous-winged Gull  25
Caspian Tern  10
Double-crested Cormorant  20
Great Blue Heron  18
Turkey Vulture  1
Bald Eagle  36
Red-tailed Hawk  1
Red-breasted Sapsucker  1
Hairy Woodpecker  1
Northern Flicker  4
Olive-sided Flycatcher  3
Western Wood-Pewee  6
Willow Flycatcher  2
Pacific-slope Flycatcher  1
Warbling Vireo  4
California Scrub-Jay  1
American Crow  15
Common Raven  2
Black-capped Chickadee  3
Chestnut-backed Chickadee  2
Northern Rough-winged Swallow  5
Purple Martin  10
Tree Swallow  30
Violet-green Swallow  15
Bank Swallow  4
Barn Swallow  80
Cliff Swallow  20
Bushtit  2
Brown Creeper  1
Marsh Wren  6
Bewick's Wren  6
European Starling  50
Swainson's Thrush  18
American Robin  40
Purple Finch  5
American Goldfinch  12
White-crowned Sparrow  1
Savannah Sparrow  8
Song Sparrow  25
Spotted Towhee  4
Yellow-headed Blackbird  1
Red-winged Blackbird  60
Brown-headed Cowbird  30
Orange-crowned Warbler  1
Common Yellowthroat  10
Yellow Warbler  36
Townsend's Warbler  1
Wilson's Warbler  1
Black-headed Grosbeak  8

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S138179475
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