[Tweeters] Joint Base Lewis McChord (JBLM) Eagle's Pride Golf Course (GC) monthly bird walk - 12-19-2025

[Denis DeSilvis via Tweeters]

Tweeters,

Five of us waded through the rain-soaked fairways and roughs at the JBLM Eagle's Pride GC on Thursday, with the rain bucketing down most of the time and the temperature not changing much from the 43degF at the start. Many of the golf holes had new water hazards, some even on the greens! Because of the downpour and paucity of bird species, we curtailed our usual route by about half - the first time we've done that since we started this birdwalk in 2013.



Significantly, we had very few forest birds - not even a calling Red-breasted Nuthatch, which was very surprising since this species is a regular. We did, however, garner some waterfowl at Hodge Lake -  birds that we didn't have any of at that site last month.



The JBLM Eagle's Pride GC birders meet the third Thursday of each month at 9:00AM from November to February. (Meeting time is 8:00AM March-October.) The starting point is the Driving Range building, Eagle's Pride Golf Course, I-5 Exit 116, Mounts Road Exit. (Turn left immediately after entering the parking lot to take the road leading to the driving range building.) Upcoming walks include the following:



* January 15

* February 19

* March 19



Everyone is welcome to join us.




>From the eBirdPNW report:


15 species



Canada Goose  2

Northern Shoveler  2     Hodge Lake.

American Wigeon  8     Four at the 9th hole pond and 4 at Hodge Lake.

Mallard  2     Hodge Lake.

Ring-necked Duck  1     Maintenance pond.

Bufflehead  18     Two at the 9th hole pond, 1 at the maintenance pond, and 15 at Hodge Lake.

Hooded Merganser  2     Hodge Lake.

Mourning Dove  5

Steller's Jay  1

California Scrub-Jay  1

American Crow  150

Pacific Wren  4

American Robin  1

Dark-eyed Junco  6

Song Sparrow  8



View this checklist online at https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Febird.org%2Fchecklist%2FS289252013&data=05%7C02%7C%7C30a862fe0db84d95c9ff08de3f6a50df%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C639017923010385405%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=d516H3WnWhTfqmPnjbBq%2F%2F28ek0av9eT9febY4uHTNw%3D&reserved=0<https://ebird.org/checklist/S289252013>


May all your birds be identified,
Denis

Denis DeSilvis
Avnacrs 4 birds at outlook dot com

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