[Tweeters] Wednesday Walk at Billy Frank Jr Nisqually NWR for 9/17/2025.

[Shep Thorp via Tweeters]

Dear Tweets,

Approximately 30 of us enjoyed our last official Wednesday Walk of Summer
with sunny skies and temperatures in the 50's to 70's Fahrenheit.  There
was a Low -0'3" Tide at 8:51am and a High 13'3" Tide at 4:42pm.  Highlights
included nice looks of RED-BREASTED SAPSUCKER in both the Orchard and Twin
Barns Picnic Area, continuing BLUE-WINGED TEAL at the twin bench overlook
just south of the Twin Barns cut-off, continued nice looks at SORA/VIRGINIA
RAIL/WILSON'S SNIPE/and AMERICAN BITTERN in the freshwater marsh, and great
looks of WESTERN SANDPIPER next to LEAST SANDPIPER on the Nisqually Estuary
Boardwalk Trail on the incoming high tide.  We also had a nice raptor day
with two PEREGRINE FALCON, AMERICAN KESTREL, NORTHERN HARRIER, and COOPERS
HAWK.

For the day we observed 70 species, we have seen 168 species this year.
Check out our eBird list pasted below for further details.

Others seen included Eastern Cotton-tailed Rabbit, Townsend's Chipmunk,
Columbian Black-tailed Deer, Eastern Gray Squirrel, Harbor Seal, American
Bullfrog, Pacific Chorus Frog, Garter Snake, Eastern Red-eared Slider.

I'll be away next week on a Westport Seabirds Pelagic.  Ken, Jim and all
will lead in my absence.

Happy birding,
Shep


-- 
Shep Thorp
Browns Point
253-370-3742

Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually NWR, Thurston, Washington, US
Sep 17, 2025 7:21 AM - 4:35 PM
Protocol: Traveling
3.18 mile(s)
Checklist Comments:     Wednesday Walk.  Sunny skies with temperatures in
the 50’s to 70’s degrees Fahrenheit. A Low -0’3” Tide at 8:51am and a High
13’3” Tide at 4:42pm. Others seen Eastern Cotton-tailed Rabbit, Townsend’s
Chipmunk, Columbian Black-tailed Deer, Eastern Gray Squirrel, Harbor Seal,
American Bullfrog, Pacific Chorus Frog, and Garter Snake.
70 species (+4 other taxa)

Canada Goose (moffitti/maxima)  6
Wood Duck  8     Visitor Center Pond.
Blue-winged Teal  1     Double bench overlook south of Twin Barns cut-off.
Northern Shoveler  4
American Wigeon  6
Mallard  30
Northern Pintail  300
Green-winged Teal (American)  20
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  50
Band-tailed Pigeon  2
Mourning Dove  1     Orchard.
Anna's Hummingbird  3
Virginia Rail  2
Sora  2
Killdeer  11
Semipalmated Plover  6
Long-billed Dowitcher  5
Wilson's Snipe  1
Greater Yellowlegs  50
Least Sandpiper  40
Western Sandpiper  200
Ring-billed Gull  100
California Gull  3
Glaucous-winged Gull  5
Western x Glaucous-winged Gull (hybrid)  10
Western/Glaucous-winged Gull  20
Larus sp.  50
Caspian Tern  25
Pied-billed Grebe  2
Brandt's Cormorant  2     Nisqually River channel marker.
Double-crested Cormorant  50
American Bittern  1     Nisqually Estuary Trail south of green gate.
Great Blue Heron  50
Turkey Vulture  11
Cooper's Hawk  1
Northern Harrier  1
Bald Eagle  3
Belted Kingfisher  4
Red-breasted Sapsucker  2     Orchard and Picnic Area around Twin Barns.
Downy Woodpecker (Pacific)  2
Northern Flicker  2
American Kestrel (Northern)  1
Peregrine Falcon  2
California Scrub-Jay  1
American Crow  110
Common Raven  11
Black-capped Chickadee  13
Chestnut-backed Chickadee  3
Tree/Violet-green Swallow  2
Barn Swallow (American)  20
Bushtit (Pacific)  20
Golden-crowned Kinglet  4
Brown Creeper  8
Marsh Wren  2
Bewick's Wren (spilurus Group)  6
European Starling  100
Swainson's Thrush  3
American Robin  24
Cedar Waxwing  12
Purple Finch (Western)  3
Pine Siskin (Northern)  20
American Goldfinch  15
Dark-eyed Junco (Oregon)  3
White-crowned Sparrow (pugetensis)  5
Golden-crowned Sparrow  2
Savannah Sparrow (Savannah)  10
Song Sparrow (rufina Group)  25
Lincoln's Sparrow  2
Spotted Towhee (oregonus Group)  4
Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  80
Brown-headed Cowbird  1
Orange-crowned Warbler  1
Common Yellowthroat  6
Yellow Warbler (Northern)  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S274060795
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