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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">A different experience from last week. It was unseasonably warm, sunny and not very windy. The only environmental distraction was the presence of strands of spider web drifting in the air, catching on clothes, hair and equipment, seemingly everywhere but especially noticeable out on the McCallister Creek boardwalk. Apparently this is how young recently hatched spiders like to travel this time of year. A highlight was a FOY Northern Shrike hunting the freshwater marsh. Biggest miss was dipping on Red-shouldered Hawk. The complete list is as follows:</span>
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Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually NWR, Thurston, Washington, US
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Oct 18, 2023 7:57 AM - 4:13 PM
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Protocol: Traveling
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6.32 mile(s)
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Checklist Comments: Wednesday Walk. 28 birders. The morning started as partly cloudy, calm and 55° F, clearing and warming to a clear and sunny 70° F afternoon. There was a +13.3-foot high tide at 9:15 a.m., ebbing to a +7.4-foot low water at 2:46 p.m. Mammals seen included Columbian black-tailed deer, Eastern grey squirrel, as well as a feral house cat near the visitors' center parking lot. It was warm, so had many dragonflies and a yellow Sulphur butterfly.
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67 species (+4 other taxa)
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Snow Goose 1
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Greater White-fronted Goose 68
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Cackling Goose (minima) 900
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Northern Shoveler 2 Estuary restoration area
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Gadwall 12
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American Wigeon 900
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Mallard 155
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Northern Pintail 1125
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Green-winged Teal 550
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Surf Scoter 18 Nisqually Reach
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Hooded Merganser 2
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Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 28
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Anna's Hummingbird 3
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Black-bellied Plover 4
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Dunlin 24
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Least Sandpiper 2
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Western Sandpiper 22
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Long-billed Dowitcher 125
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Wilson's Snipe 6
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Spotted Sandpiper 1 McAllister Creek west shore
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Greater Yellowlegs 32
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Short-billed Gull 7
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Ring-billed Gull 185
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California Gull 3
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Glaucous-winged Gull 1
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Western x Glaucous-winged Gull (hybrid) 3
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Western/Glaucous-winged Gull 4
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gull sp. 250
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Common Loon 2
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Brandt's Cormorant 7 Nisqually Reach channel marker
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Double-crested Cormorant 50
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Great Blue Heron 24
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Northern Harrier 2
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Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
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Cooper's Hawk 2
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Bald Eagle 8
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Red-tailed Hawk (calurus/alascensis) 2
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Belted Kingfisher 2
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Downy Woodpecker (Pacific) 3
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Northern Flicker 2
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Northern Flicker (Red-shafted) 1
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Merlin 1
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Peregrine Falcon 2
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Northern Shrike 1 Cattail marsh
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American Crow 75
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Common Raven 4
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Black-capped Chickadee 22
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Chestnut-backed Chickadee 7
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Bushtit (Pacific) 38
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Ruby-crowned Kinglet 6
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Golden-crowned Kinglet 5
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Brown Creeper 2
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Pacific Wren 7
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Marsh Wren 4
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Bewick's Wren 11
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European Starling 285
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American Robin 46
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Cedar Waxwing 16
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American Pipit 6
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House Finch 2
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Purple Finch (Western) 1
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Pine Siskin 25
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American Goldfinch 2
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Fox Sparrow (Sooty) 6
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Dark-eyed Junco (Oregon) 1
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Golden-crowned Sparrow 6
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White-throated Sparrow 1 Orchard
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Song Sparrow 34
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Spotted Towhee (oregonus Group) 10
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Western Meadowlark 1
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Red-winged Blackbird 75
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