SEABIRDS IN THE RAIN FOREST, GALLERY PART 2

More pictures from the birders on our 2010 winter trips to the Pacific Northwest.  HERE YOU CAN FIND OUT ABOUT OUR TRIP IN 2011.

PHOTOS, TOP TO BOTTOM:

Brant loafing along the shore of Hood Canal, Washington State.  Photo by Steve Murray.

Male White-winged Scoter, Hood Canal.  By Steve Murray.

Harlequin couple on the rocks along Hood Canal.  Photo by Jeannie Mitchell.

Male Olds… Long-tailed Duck cruising the yacht harbor at Sequim, Washington.  Photo by Ms Mitchell.

A Glaucous-winged Gull struggles to get up enough speed to show its disapprobation of an adult Bald Eagle.  The eagle seemed to be carrying a Coot  in its talons.  This action shot by Ms Jeannie Mitchell.

Red-tailed Hawk dining on fresh rodent, Sauvie’s Island, Oregon.  Photo by Ms Mitchell.

Trumpeter Swans in flight, Sauvie’s Island, Oregon.  Photo by Ms Mitchell.

Whidbey Island beach, photo by Jennifer Hyypio.  Here we saw a large flock of Black Oystercatchers.  A flotilla of Harlequins, several species of loon and grebe fished offshore and a Pacific (nee “Winter’) Wren came down to insect-hunt in the driftwood.

List of species from Northwest Birding Trip, January, 2010

PIB Northwest Birding Trip, January, 2010
Birds Seen–Updated Feb 15, 2010

Harlequin Duck pair at Hama Hama.

Photo by Jeannie Mitchell.

Snowy Goose
Ross’s Goose, Sauvie Island
Cackling Goose
Canada Goose
Brant
Trumpeter Swan, Sequim
Tundra Swan
Gadwall
Eurasian Wigeon, Sauvie Island
Am. Wigeon
Mallard
Shoveler
Pintail
GW Teal
[Common Teal, the European teal not yet seen as separate species by AOU]
Canvasback
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Harlequin Duck
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter, Hood Canal
Black Scoter, Cannon Beach, OR
Long-tailed Duck
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Barrow’s Goldeneye
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Red-throated Loon
Pacific Loon
Common Loon, Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe
Brandt’s Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret, Sauvie Island
Bald Eagle
Harrier
Cooper’s Hawk
Red-tailed hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
Kestrel
Merlin,  Cannon Beach
Peregrine
Coot
Sandhill Crane, Sauvie Island
Black-bellied Plover
Killdeer
Black Oystercatcher
Greater Yellowlegs
Marbled Godwit, Sequim\
Sanberling
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Dunlin
Mew Gull
Ring-billed Gull
California Gull
Herring Gull
Thayer’s Gull
Western Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Common Murre
Pigeon Guillemot
Cassin’s Auklet, Marbled Murrelet
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared-dove
Mourning Dove
Short-eared Owl, Sauvie Island
Anna’s Hummingbird,                Belted Kingfisher
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker                     Northern Shrike, Sauvie’s Island, seen by two of our group
Steller’s Jay
Western Scrub-Jay
American Crow
Northwestern Crow or AmericanXNorthwestern
Common Raven
Black-capped Chickadee
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Bushtit
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper, Sequim
Bewick’s Wren
Winter Wren
Marsh Wren, Nisqually NWR (seen by only part of our group on final day)
GC Kinglet

RC Kinglet, Hermit Thrush,  Am. Robin
Varied Thrush, seen by only a few of the group, Fort Stevens
Wrentit, heard by all, seen by only two of the group, Coffeeberry Lake, Ft. Stevens
Starling
Spotted Towhee
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
DE Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Brewer’s Blackbird
Purple Finch
House Finch
Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

Total species:  117 including Common Teal