Admiralty Audubon Society (Port Townsend)
Selections from the Birding Sighting Archives
New 10/2!
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January
- 1/26/03 -- Sandra Stowell
Boathaven/Larry
Scott Trail
- 20 or more black turnstones on south side of the railroad trestle,
with a few dunlin
- 1/28/03
Kah Tai Lagoon Nature Park -- Ron Sikes
- 200+ Lesser? Scaup on the lagoon near the south shore, feeding
preening, and resting.
(here most winters)
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February
- 2/27/03
Quilcene -- Richard Isherwood
- Today we saw a white fronted goose on Center Rd,
among about 40 Trumpeter Swans and several Canada Geese.
- Also two snipe in the flooded grass; two more snipe at the head
of Quilcene Bay,
- Eight Orcas, up close to shore near the Quilcene Marina and later
off Whitney Point.
Two of them were males with huge dorsal fins.
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March
- 3/29/02
Along beach West of North Beach -- Quenn Charrier
- Harlequin ducks and Red Breasted Mergansers
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April
- 4/11/02
Dungeness Spit -- Marilyn Friedrich
- Eared Grebes - in brilliant breeding plumage, the patch on their
heads was golden.
- Back-bellied plovers-on lagoon side.
- 4/16/02
Oak Bay, Port Hadlock -- Diane Mulholland
- 1 Savannah sparrow; 7 Violet-green swallows;
- 6 Dunlin in breeding plumage; 1 Osprey; 7 Greater scaup;
- Pacific & Common loons in breeding plumage, close to shore
at high tide.
- 4/17/02
J. L. Scot Memorial Trail between PT Mill and Marina -- Mark Wade
- Approximately 25 to 30 American Golden Plovers (Pluvialis Dominica).
- 4/24/02
Oak Bay County Park, Port Hadlock -- Diane Mulholland
- 1 Mute Swan Close in at high tide;
- 17 Western Sandpipers;
- 50+ Dunlin; 3 Greater Yellowlegs and 3 Dowitcher species in the
wetlands.
- 4/24/03
Beach
between North Beach and Point Wilson, Fort Worden St. Park -- Ron Sikes
- 8 AM and during a low tide 12 whimbrel were seen in the rocky
areas of the exposed beech from about mid way between Pt Wilson and North
Beach public parking.
- During our Saturday Admiralty Audubon field trip a fellow stopped
at the Lions Club parking lot to tell our group about his seeing l5 whimbrel
near the old pier west of Marrowstone Point
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May
- 5/3/03 -- Richard Isherwood
Middle
Point Beach
- 23 whimbrel west of Middle Point, with one marbled godwit.
- 5/19/03
Protection Island -- Richard Isherwood
- 11 tufted puffins in the waters west of the island toward the
entrance to Sequim Bay.
- 5/26/02
Protection Island -- Richard Isherwood
- 7 Tufted Puffins around the north side of the island this morning.
- Also one Pacific Loon in summer plumage and several pairs of Marbled
Murrelets.
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June
- 6/11/02
Point Hudson - Dan Waggoner
- 25 Heermann's Gull sitting on the gravel spit.
- Solitary Black Oystercatcher.
- The bay was filled with hundreds of Rhinoceros Auklet.
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July
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August
- 8/25/03
Kah Tai Lagoon -- Ron Sikes
- Three semipalmated plovers were feeding on the exposed shore
at the SE side of the lagoon
(I believe this is the first time I have seen this little plover at
Kah Tai).
- Also seen - 30+ western sandpipers, lesser & greater yellowlegs,
dowitchers, and killdeer.
- 8/30/03
Larry Scott Memorial Trail -- Ron Sikes
- Barn owl in burrow near top of the bluff along the trail midway
between the Mill and the PT Boat Haven.
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September
- 9/1/03
Kah Tai Lagoon - Dan Waggoner
- Juvenile Buff-breasted Sandpiper at Kah Tai Lagoon at 10:00 am
this morning (also 3:00 p.m.). (It was actively feeding along the shore of
the small pond that is next picnic shelter. The pond is very low with only
half the area covered with water. The Buff-breasted Sandpiper spent the
majority of its time on the sandy part of the beach.)
- Other shorebirds seen at the lagoon included Killdeer, Western
Sandpiper, Least Sandpiper, Greater Yellowlegs, Lesser Yellowlegs, Short-billed
Dowitcher, and A Semi-palmated Plover.
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October
- 10/29/03
6th & Gise St, Port Townsend -- Ron Sikes
- Evening
grosbeaks- a flock of about 25.
Before taking flight they were calling from their location in tall Douglas
Firs.
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November
- 11/6/03
Lake Leland area, Quilcene -- Dan Waggoner
- The
first two Trumpeter Swans of the season are in the southwest corner of Lake
Leland. Normally, you can count on about twenty arriving by Thanksgiving.
There was also a female Eurasian Wigeon in the pond/field north of the Faith
Farm with a flock of American Wigeons and Mallards.
- 11/7/03
Dungeness Spit - Len and Emily Mandelbaum
- Common
loon, Pacific loon, Yellow-billed loon, Red-throated loon,Surf scoter, Black
scoter, White-winged scoter, Long-tailed duck, Dunlin, Sanderling, Double-crested
cormorant, Brandt\'s cormorant, Horned grebe, Red-necked grebe.
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December
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