[Tweeters] Wednesday @ Nisqually.

[Kenneth Brown]

Not quite summer, not quite spring.  No unexpected species, no glaring absences.  Another boring day at Nisqually?  Not at all.
 
We were briefed this morning that a section of the dike along the Nisqually River would be closed to entry for most of the day for hazard tree removal.  (This informal, informative, friendly outreach by the Refuge staff is their consistent approach.)  At peak attendance 32 of us ambled along in bovine bliss.
 
A personal aside:  We as a group have to do better at keeping the entrance road clear of us pedestrians.  Someone could get hurt.
 
Lecture finished, the checklist follows.
 
Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually NWR, Thurston, Washington, US
May 24, 2023 7:53 AM - 4:10 PM
Protocol: Traveling
5.47 mile(s)
Checklist Comments:     Mammals: Harbor Seals, Coyote, Black-tailed deer, E. Gray squirrel.
71 species (+3 other taxa)

Canada Goose  91
Wood Duck  25
Blue-winged Teal  6
Cinnamon Teal  3
Northern Shoveler  6
Gadwall  4
American Wigeon  4
Mallard  60
Northern Pintail  1
Hooded Merganser  6
Band-tailed Pigeon  4
Eurasian Collared-Dove  2
Mourning Dove  2
Rufous Hummingbird  6
hummingbird sp.  2
Sora  1
American Coot  2
Killdeer  1
Whimbrel  6
Wilson's Snipe  2
Spotted Sandpiper  1
Greater Yellowlegs  1
Ring-billed Gull  25
California Gull  35
Glaucous-winged Gull  1
Western/Glaucous-winged Gull  30
Caspian Tern  80
Brandt's Cormorant  4
Double-crested Cormorant  40
Great Blue Heron  45
Accipiter sp.  1
Bald Eagle  40
Red-tailed Hawk  1
Red-breasted Sapsucker  2
Downy Woodpecker  1
Hairy Woodpecker  1
Western Wood-Pewee  8
Willow Flycatcher  10
Pacific-slope Flycatcher  2
Warbling Vireo  3
Steller's Jay  1
American Crow  6
Common Raven  2
Black-capped Chickadee  8
Northern Rough-winged Swallow  2
Purple Martin  2
Tree Swallow  30
Violet-green Swallow  10
Bank Swallow  3
Barn Swallow  60
Cliff Swallow  20
Bushtit  6
Brown Creeper  4
Pacific Wren  1
Marsh Wren  12
Bewick's Wren  6
European Starling  18
Swainson's Thrush  28     Counted individually by group member tasked to tally this species.
American Robin  40
Cedar Waxwing  50
Purple Finch  6
American Goldfinch  36
Savannah Sparrow  4
Song Sparrow  33
Spotted Towhee  3
Bullock's Oriole  3
Red-winged Blackbird  50
Brown-headed Cowbird  25
Orange-crowned Warbler  1
Common Yellowthroat  12
Yellow Warbler  40
Yellow-rumped Warbler  2
Western Tanager  1
Black-headed Grosbeak  12

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S139145750
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