Alida Morzenti has been studying and teaching about our local raptors for over 30 years. Her slide presentation will give an overview of the raptors of Northern California with an emphasis on the behavior and lifestyle characteristics which can help with identification in the field. She will include a snapshot view of the common species with a discussion of their natural history. Bring her your most puzzling I.D. questions!

Alida helped start the UC Davis Raptor Center in 1972 and directed it until 1980. She taught classes in Avian Science at UCD and has written a book on captive raptor management. Alida also helped establish the Santa Rosa Bird Rescue Center at its present location and has worked closely for many years with the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory in the Marin Headlands. Now retired from university teaching, she lives at a family vineyard in Santa Rosa and enjoys working again at the Bird Rescue Center…and watching raptors whenever possible.

COMING IN APRIL: "The Yellowstone Ecosystem-From Bison to Wolves, Fumaroles to Wildfires," with Petaluma photographer Gerald Moore.

Someone who finds and reports an unexpected bird certainly deserves credit for adding to the scientific database concerning avian movements. And such an experience can also provide a real sense of pride and satisfaction from the challenges of successfully locating and identifying such a bird. However, I maintain that the greatest benefit of all to the finder is probably the story thus created, which has been known, in many cases, to provide ample entertainment for friends and family for years to come. For example:

Early in December of 2003, while working in the field, biologist Eric Lichtwardt received a frantic call from a colleague about a mile from him in the Laguna de Santa Rosa. "There's a huge black bird with a strange shape circling over us. Come quickly!" Eric jumped in his car, but by the time he got there the bird was gone. Fortunately the quick-thinking original viewer had captured the likeness of the strange swooping aerial figure with her camera. These pictures showed the unmistakable outline of a frigatebird from the tropics, 'a casual summer and fall vagrant along the coast,' according to Benjamin D. Parmeter in his authoritative book, The Birds of Sonoma County. Frigatebirds are very rare here in winter. Keep your eyes on the sky, folks. Never know what will be there next!

It might even be a roadrunner coming to spend the afternoon in the backyard of your home near the corner of Montecito and Brush Creek Road in Santa Rosa. What? Just that happened to non-birder Helen Lintz in 1988. She was so sure that no one would believe her, and didn't know to whom she would report the sighting anyway, that she never mentioned the bird until we recently met at the gym. "What would you say if I told you that a roadrunner came into my yard once?" she asked timidly one day while diligently lifting some weights. When gently questioned, she was able to accurately describe field marks and vocalizations not available to her in any field guides. In addition, at that time there was suitable chaparral habitat for this bird within a mile of her house. Good for you, Helen. We really do believe you! Thanks for the new record of an old sighting!

And, just imagine the consternation at the Bird Rescue Center early in February of this year, when an injured, dark orange-yellow bird with just a few tiny red feathers and an outsized whitish bill was brought in for care. Much larger than a warbler, this was a real mystery bird until carefully and correctly identified as a Summer Tanager by volunteer staff member John Coffman. This species is seldom seen in Santa Rosa, and is listed as casual at all seasons in Sonoma County by Benjamin D. Parmeter's aforementioned book. Coincidentally, Sara Blauman had reported a Summer Tanager at her feeder in east Santa Rosa late in December. Same bird? Who knows? Unfortunately the injured bird did not survive and its body has been donated to the Sonoma State University Biology Department. Sharp eyes and good deductive powers, Sara and John.

Ah, yes, but who could miss the identification of the three pink flamingos seen about two weeks ago in the wetlands bordering Highway 37 near Skaggs Island? Well, a puzzled young man and I came very close to blowing that one, and I am still not sure about those birds which were reported to me on the telephone. I forgot to ask if they were moving, for plastic flamingos have been mysteriously proliferating all over recently. If they were live birds they would be assumed to have escaped or been released from a private aviary or a zoo. Oh, dear! What are they? Real or plastic? The answer turns out to be they could be either! Plastic flamingos have been seen on the Highway 37 wetlands. And real live Chilean Flamingos have been reported by Benjamin D. Parmeter in wetlands near Napa. Go look for yourself, and you'll have an unusual bird tale of your own.

A Restoration Milestone

Another milestone has been reached in the continuing effort of San Francisco Baylands restoration. On February 5, 2004, the Sonoma County Agricultural Preservation and Open Space District voted unanimously to fund a significant portion of the purchase of the Dickson Ranch property. This 640-acre property is located near the mouth of the Petaluma River and is among many parcels of land along San Pablo Bay within the boundaries of Sonoma County.

Additional funding will come from the Sonoma Land Trust and the Coastal Conservancy. A great deal of credit goes to Sonoma Land Trust's Project Director Wendy Eliot, who spent years establishing a rapport with the Dickson family, and who arranged the financing for the purchase. At the meeting with the Open Space District, Carl Wilcox of California Fish and Game described the concept of restoration that is being formulated. This plan would have most of the property restored to tidal marsh and a new levy constructed near the railroad tracks which go through the property. Land above the levy will become upland habitat.

Why is this milestone so important? About three quarters of the Baylands around San Francisco Bay have been lost to nature in the last 150 years. Most have been diked and drained for agriculture, and some have been filled and developed for housing and industry.

The Benefits of Wetlands

The wetlands around the bay are important to the animals we love. Nearly all of the migratory waterfowl on the West Coast use them at some time during the year. Baylands are important to many California fisheries. They produce food and provide spawning grounds for endangered salmonids and other fish. This is also important habitat for rare and endangered species like the California Clapper Rail and the Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse. Two species of birds, the San Pablo Song Sparrow and the Salt Marsh Yellowthroat are endemic only to the San Pablo Baylands.

Wetlands are also important for the water quality of the Bay. The plants and microlife of the Baylands remove impurities from the water before it flows to the bay. Wetlands also slow the velocity of water flowing through from uplands, causing sediments to be deposited into the wetlands instead of into the Bay. Restoration of tidal marshes occurs rather quickly (within 5-10 years), because the plant and animal life necessary are brought to the properties by the tide, and not much human intervention is required after conditions are returned to tidal action.

The Big Picture

In 2000, the Bay Area Audubon Chapters started a program to publicize the desire to acquire and restore 100,000 acres of land around San Francisco Bay. National Audubon felt that this was such an important campaign that it started Audubon's San Francisco Bay Restoration Program. This program has worked with funding agencies and other environmental organizations to secure the acquisition of over 30,000 acres of baylands. One recent success was the acquisition of the Cargill salt ponds in the South Bay. The San Francisco Bay Restoration Program also worked alongside Madrone Audubon and the Petaluma Wetlands Alliance to help the city of Petaluma acquire the 275 acres needed for the new Wetlands Sanctuary project in Petaluma.

Besides the Cargill ponds in the South Bay, the only remaining large tracts of restorable land are located in the North Bay, where there is the potential to protect 40 to 50 thousand acres of nearly contiguous bay shoreline and tidal marshes. Such a large tract of contiguous habitat will have a much greater positive effect for wildlife than the same acreage fragmented and spread out. This land includes, from east to west, the San Pablo Bay Wildlife Refuge near Vallejo, the Napa-Sonoma Marsh, Skaggs Island, properties near the Petaluma River, and Bahia and other parcels in Marin County.

When all of these properties are protected and restored, the natural world will thrive. So much of this naturally valuable and beautiful ground was lost in the nineteenth and twentieth century. It is a dream of the twenty-first century to protect forever some of this "lost" treasure.

For only a short time, right now, there is an opportunity to protect and connect the Baylands in our North Bay backyard.

At their February meeting, Madrone's Board of Directors voted to contribute $3,000 to the latest Baylands acquisition project-the Sonoma Land Trust's campaign to raise the $20 to $25 million necessary to acquire the property known as the North Point Joint Venture. This is the 2000-acre parcel where the Graton Rancheria had originally planned to build a casino and resort. It lies southeast of Highway 37 and includes diked baylands and upland habitats. After many objections from environmental groups, including Madrone, the tribe transferred its option to purchase the property to the Land Trust.

This $3,000 donation represents several years' accumulation of monies set aside in our chapter's land acquisition fund. We are hopeful that others will make donations in time for this property to be acquired and put into public ownership…safe from any further development.

The Santa Rosa Bird Rescue Center is now gearing up for the 2004 Baby Bird Season. For optimum performance during this hectic time (May through August) the Center needs more than 125 volunteers a week, in three shifts a day.

Among these volunteers there is a new category this year for which Madrone Audubon members are particularly well qualified: admissions teams. Each team is made up of two people who work a three-hour shift at the front desk (choice of morning, afternoon or evening). These teams greet the public, in person or by phone, answer their innumerable questions, explain why many babies should be returned to their parents and NOT left at Bird Rescue, admit appropriate birds, and handle merchandise sales. Teams can be two adults or a parent/child combination. Make up your own team with a friend or relative and come help us! Or we can pair you up with another willing volunteer. We would surely appreciate it.

Of course bird care providers are always needed to make the season successful; transporters can help, too, and others may want to learn to do bird care in their homes.

For more information and for orientation times call Martha Bentley at 545-5501 or Diane Hichwa at 579-1182.

You, our Audubon chapter friends, deserve some special treatment, and we invite you to join us for one of the following occasions:

Bolinas Lagoon Preserve opens to the public this month (March 13 through July 11, weekends and holidays only, 10 AM-4 PM). Come hike our trails and view the magnificent heronry atop Picher Canyon's redwoods and firs. If you can volunteer to host on one of our public days, we'll give you a special welcome and invite you to our wonderful annual Volunteer Appreciation Picnic in the fall. Please call our office at (415) 868-9244 for more information.

Bouverie Preserve's popular guided nature walks will be on March 30, April 3 and 17, May 8, 15 and 22. While hikers for these walks are chosen by lottery, we have prepared a special form for Audubon members, which you should request when you call 938-4554 for an application. Although we cannot guarantee a spot, we will make every effort to accommodate you, our Audubon friends. And remember that you can always call the office a few days before one of these hike dates to check for any last minute cancellations (which can occur often).

We invite you to lunch! Come help us spruce up our preserves with work on trails, in the native plant gardens, kitchens, or libraries. You'll have a private viewing of a preserve, an invitation to our fall Volunteer Appreciation Picnic, and a delicious lunch. Call ahead so we can plan on enough food!
Bouverie Preserve Work Day: Saturday, March 6, 9:30 AM, lunch at 1:00. Call 938-4554, or send an e-mail to <nancy@egret.org>. For the fastest response, be sure to leave your name, address, and phone number.
Bolinas Lagoon Preserve Work Day: Sunday, March 7, Picher Canyon, 9:30 AM, lunch at 1:00. Call (415) 868-9244.

Bolinas Lagoon, Wednesday, January 14
On a cold morning with intermittent showers, eight hardy folks joined Don McCarthy and located four Eurasian Wigeon. At Five Brooks, two Pileated Woodpeckers were seen and heard. On the Earthquake Trail we had a very long, close look at a Townsend's Warbler. A total of 81 species were found.

Grizzly Island and Rush Ranch, Wednesday, January 28
On a partially cloudy day a group of 15 birders met with Jack Troutfetter for a trip to Grizzly Island and Rush Ranch, south of Fairfield. Fifty-nine species were sighted, but due to the hunting season very few ducks were found. Highlights of the day included two Burrowing Owls, two Great Horned Owls, six White Pelicans circling over the water and a small herd of non-flying Tule Elk.

Sebastopol Area, Thursday, February 5
A group of 27 birders led by Gay Bishop enjoyed one of the few sunny days that have been experienced in the last four or five years of outings at the Laguna de Santa Rosa. Large numbers of Great and Cattle Egrets (30 each) foraging in a field with an occasional Snowy Egret provided an opportunity to compare these three closely related birds. Twenty-six roosting Black-Crowned Night Herons were also spotted before the birders moved to Ragle Park, where Western Bluebirds, a Red-Breasted Sapsucker, a Yellow-Shafted Northern Flicker and others added to the day's tally of 48 species.

Bodega Bay, Wednesday, February 11
It was a beautiful day at Bodega Bay. Due to the late arrival of the Leaves, only twelve birders joined Richard Hurley for the field trip. From the rail ponds we saw about fifteen Great Blue Herons landing in the tree tops above Spud Point to the west of the road. A future rookery? The bird of the day, scoped out by Betty Groce at Bodega Head, was a Marbled Murrelet. We searched Bodega Bay outside the harbor for the Arctic Loon reported on the birdbox (the Rare Bird Alert phone line), to no avail. At the farmer's pond outside the town of Bodega we spotted Canvasbacks (a regular sighting at that spot), Ring-necked Duck, and four Snow Geese. All told, seventy-five species were identified.

Our best wishes to Tom and Barbara Hendricks, who have been strong supporters of Madrone Audubon during their tenure as owners of Wild Birds Unlimited, offering a 10% discount to Madrone members and forwarding us the amount of this discount from those who wished to donate it to our chapter.

Tim Stewart, a Madrone member himself, is the new owner of Wild Birds Unlimited, which is located at 71 Brookwood Avenue, Santa Rosa. He has assured us that the discount and the option to donate to our chapter will remain in place. The discount applies to all store items except optics.

The following Wild Birds Unlimited customers recently elected to donate their discount to Madrone:

Again we wish to thank Veronica Bowers for her December 2003 contribution from the sale of La Dolce V's songbird bars. The amount received was higher than originally reported, for a total of $410.

Spring is a wonderful time in Sonoma County, and it is certainly evident at the Mayacamas Mountains Sanctuary. The flowers are blooming and the birds are singing. Audubon California and the Madrone Audubon Society hope that many of our members and friends get a chance to see spring's splendor at the Sanctuary this year.

I would like to welcome our two newest Mayacamas Mountains Sanctuary Steering Committee members: Tom McCuller and Peter Leveque. They will join Diane Hichwa to make up the three members appointed by the Madrone Board of Directors. Pete DeSimone, Director of Sanctuaries and Stewardship for Audubon California, serves on the Steering Committee as well. We hope to fill three at-large committee positions sometime this spring. I want to take this opportunity to thank Joannie Dranginis and Bill Payne for their years of commitment to the Sanctuary and their contributions as the first Steering Committee members along with Diane.

Keep an eye on the calendar section in the Leaves for Madrone-sponsored hikes and field trips to the Sanctuary this spring and summer. Other local groups are welcome to arrange similar activities, so watch for their announcements as well. If nothing else, take a drive up Pine Flat Road and stop at a few of the newly improved turnouts to have a good look at this very special place.

New Local Members:
COTATI: Dane Kyle. GLEN ELLEN: Peggy Henry, William M. Wiebalk, Paula Zerzan. MONTE RIO: Dennis O'Rorke. ROHNERT PARK: Rosemary Hansan. SANTA ROSA: Helen Howard, Robert L. Knutson, E. Gracen Lyon, Jim Moir SEBASTOPOL: Barbara Briggs-Letson, Irene Slater & Michael Stratton. SONOMA: Ernestine Trujillo. WINDSOR: Richard A. Weston.

New National Audubon Members:
BODEGA BAY: Shirlee Johnson. CAZADERO: Ruth Fellhauer. COTATI: Ruth A. Johnson. DUNCANS MILLS: Mike & Kay Lavin. GLEN ELLEN: Norman Oliver. GUERNEVILLE: Catharina Fennell, Robert Knight. HEALDSBURG: Edward M. Neal. MONTE RIO: Mary T. Mundal, Tom Rodgers. OCCIDENTAL: Janna Jalkanen. PETALUMA: Pamela Asselmeier, Willy Beyerbach, Coris M. Biggs, Constance Haracz, Diane Holmstrom, Olivia Kinsella, Kevin Mead, Michael Molland, Carolyn J. Rawlinson, Marilyn Strom, Virginia M. Warner. ROHNERT PARK: Marie Fox. SANTA ROSA: Floyd Becker, Marcia F. Bitz, Helen Bonfigli, Misty M. Carstarphen, Yara Fallon, Kate Gajda, Georgette Foslovovich, Phyllis B. Gray, Cynthia L. Haley, Laura Hall, Robert J. Halvorsen, Morris Hamm, Lucinda Hampton, Dick Hunt, Patricia Jones, Diana Magri, A Mallonee, Charissa Martinez, Mary Ann McPheeters, Carolyn Metz, Corinne F. Monahan, Daniel T. Murphy, Deborah Myers, Scott Ponic, Bettye Jo Reymond, Jeff & Maryann Schloo, Everill Stevenson, Albert J. & Nancy Stumpf, Janet B. Tempel, Jack Troutfetter, Diane Watson, Shirley Wright. SEBASTOPOL: The Coy Family, Bronwyn B. Davis, Charmaine Rable, Judith L. Smith, Brendan Smith, Don & Barb Stiling. SONOMA: Gail Larrick, Gina & Greg McCaw, Anne K. Moller Racke, Pat & Pete Ryan, Richard Schneider, Elizabeth Sheela, Patricia Thames, Gina Tisell. VINEBURG: Constance L. Watts. WINDSOR: R.C. Higbee, Beverly J. Lomonaco, Charles Siebenthal, Kim Whalen.

Claire Shurvinton will lead a bird walk for kids as part of Madrone Audubon's Birdathon. We will meet at the boat ramp at Howarth Park, by Lake Ralphine. No previous expertise with bird identification is required! Contact Claire at 527-6118, or at <cshurvin@earthlink.net> if you are interested in this walk.

COMING EVENTS IN APRIL AND MAY

Sunday, April 25, from 1:00 to 3:00 PM
Bullfrog Pond Scavenger Hunt and Pond Exploration at Armstrong Woods State Park. Leaders: Doug and Debbie Eakins of the Santa Rosa Junior College Life Sciences Department. Doug is an expert on aquatic critters and Debbie's specialty is native wildflowers and other plants.

Bullfrog pond is located in the upper reaches of Armstrong Woods State Park, just north of the town of Guerneville. A beautiful spot all year long, in spring it is surrounded by blooming wildflowers and native shrubs, and full of wiggling pollywogs, small crustaceans and insect larvae. Bring a net or container to scoop up the water; there will be a microscope and magnifying glasses to look at your catch. There will also be a scavenger hunt to help you learn to identify the plants and animals we will find there. Be aware that there may be poison oak and ticks as part of the flora and fauna! Also, the pond edges can be slippery, so dress accordingly! Come early to picnic beforehand.

Saturday morning, May 15
Peter Leveque will lead a hike for kids at the Mayacamas Mountains Audubon Sanctuary, located just west of Healdsburg. The meeting time will be about 9:30 AM, location still to be determined.

NOTE: You may make advance reservations for either of these two coming events by calling Lana at 887-0571.

ANOTHER ACTIVITY OF INTEREST FOR PEE WEE FAMILIES:

Beginners Orienteering at Spring Lake Park. Sunday March 14, 9 AM to Noon. Organized by the Bay Area Orienteering Club. Details at www.baoc.org, or call Judy Koehler at 778-1604.

Following the fabulous success of last year, when we received all kinds of wonderful artwork from local youngsters, we will once again be having a Bird Art Competition where youngsters can submit their portrayals of local birds for prizes and display at our annual dinner and on the Madrone web site. Prizes will be awarded in 3 different age categories: under 7, 8 to 9, and 10 and above. Submissions will be due on Saturday May 1. Please contact Claire at 527-6118 or at <cshurvin@earthlink.net> for more details.

NOTE: You can still view last year's winners on the Madrone web site: <http://audubon.sonoma.net/pwee/pwartcon.html>.

Fairfield Osborn Preserve: Two naturalist-led hikes on Saturdays, March 6 through May 15 (no hike on April 10), at 9:00 and 11:00 AM. The Preserve is located on the western slope of Sonoma Mountain, about 7.5 miles from the SSU campus. No reservations required-meet at the Preserve parking lot. For directions, go to <www.sonoma.edu/org/preserve> or call 795-5069.

LagunaKeeper Workday. Saturday, March 27, from 9 AM to Noon. Meet at the Youth Annex parking lot (next to the Sebastopol Community Center) for a final workday before bird nesting season begins in earnest. Wear gloves, bring water and tools and a friend! Free tee shirts and an invitation to a special spring birding day in the Laguna, just for volunteers. For further information, please call Mary Abbott, 823-5331 x 310.

Godwit Days. April 16-18 in Arcata. Spring migration festival, world class bird-watching and nature experiences in and around Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary. For information and registration visit the web site at <www.godwitdays.com> or call (800) 908-WING (9464).

Get an early start by registering yourself or your family for one of National Audubon's summer camp programs for adults, youth, families and educators. Camps in Maine, Minnesota, Vermont, and Wisconsin offer weeklong sessions of outdoor adventure from June to September. Camp activities vary widely, but sessions include kayaking, canoeing, ornithology, nature photography, ecology, environmental education, and herpetology. Additional activities may include ropes courses, overnight camping, bird and wildlife viewing, canoe building or workshops, and presentations by camp leaders and instructors, many of whom are unrivaled naturalists, biologists, ecologists, and local guides. Online information and registration is available at <www.audubon.org/educate/cw/>.

Golden Trout Natural History Workshop. Hike-in wilderness camp at 10,000 feet near Mt. Whitney. Three naturalist-interpreted, one-week sessions starting June 27, July 4 and July 11. For a brochure call (805) 688-8344, or e-mail paul.roark@verizon.net. See web site at <www.1startists.com/gtc/>.

Saturday, February 1, offered the best weather in days. It dawned clear, the haze and fog of previous days cleared by the north wind. When we arrived at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge, we drove under a huge adult Bald Eagle on the way to the visitor center. We decided that it was a real omen for the day, and it proved to be. In perfect morning light this at least 5-year-old bird, an immense Alaskan female, was an awesome sight.

The auto tour was productive-thousands of Snow Geese, attendant Ross' Geese, Northern Harriers, and all the ducks one would expect. Now and then a huge flock of geese would take to the air and invariably there would be an eagle responsible. By the time we left, we had seen nine Bald Eagles. One was seen devouring a duck in a favored tree. Some were seen perched, some in flight, all quite stirring.

We continued on to Road Z and Llano Seco, adding Tundra Swans, Sandhill Cranes, Wood Ducks, Night Herons, and seven more Bald Eagles and a Golden Eagle. At Llano Seco, we saw several male Eurasian Wigeon and a Redhead among the thousands of ducks clustered on the main pond. While watching waterfowl there, we saw an adult Baldie drop magnificently from the sky to pursue ducks, saw four more soaring together and separately, another perched, and one standing in a field sizing up some cattle.

We finished up the day in gathering dusk at Gray Lodge with a Peregrine Falcon, Red-shoulder Hawks, White-faced Ibis, and a spectacular fly-in of ducks and Snow and Greater White-fronted Geese. The last views of the day were of dancing Sandhill Cranes in stubble fields with the Sutter Buttes as a backdrop. The eagle count was 16 Bald Eagles and two Golden Eagles. I cannot remember seeing anywhere near as many eagles in a single day without being up north in the Lower Klamath refuges.

79 Red-throated Loon 1 immature
70 Pacific Loon 34 Northern Harrier
47 Common Loon 15 Sharp-shinned Hawk
3 loon, sp. 5 Cooper's Hawk
51 Pied-billed Grebe 1 Northern Goshawk
127 Horned Grebe 3 accipiter, sp.
5 Red-necked Grebe 27 Red-shouldered Hawk
146 Eared Grebe 176 Red-tailed Hawk
273 Western Grebe 3 Ferruginous Hawk
3 Clark's Grebe 3 Rough-legged Hawk
110 Aechmophorus, sp. 1 buteo, sp.
951 Northern Fulmar 5 Golden Eagle
7 Pink-footed Shearwater 1 adult
16 Sooty Shearwater 2 immatures
1 Sooty/Short-tailed Shearwater 2 unknown
3 shearwater, sp. 120 American Kestrel
24 American White Pelican 4 Merlin
20 Brown Pelican 8 Peregrine Falcon
281 Brandt's Cormorant 1 falcon, sp.
64 Double-crested Cormorant 162 Wild Turkey
253 Pelagic Cormorant
24 cormorant, sp. 1028 California Quail
66 Great Blue Heron (blue morph) 1 Black Rail
48 Great Egret 3 Virginia Rail
24 Snowy Egret 2 Sora
1 Green Heron 549 American Coot
19 Black-crowned Night-Heron 99 Black-bellied Plover
531 Turkey Vulture 1 Snowy Plover
365 Canada Goose 110 Semipalmated Plover
3719 (Black) Brant 126 Killdeer
78 Wood Duck 44 Black Oystercatcher
22 Gadwall 25 American Avocet
3 Eurasian Wigeon 3 Greater Yellowlegs
162 American Wigeon 642 Willet
192 Mallard 1 Wandering Tattler
16 Cinnamon Teal 4 Spotted Sandpiper
32 Northern Shoveler 6 Whimbrel
2 Northern Pintail 1174 Marbled Godwit
106 Green-winged Teal (American) 35 Ruddy Turnstone
2 Canvasback 250 Black Turnstone
4 Ring-necked Duck 69 Surfbird
270 Greater Scaup 186 Sanderling
143 Lesser Scaup 339 Western Sandpiper
225 scaup, sp. 510 Least Sandpiper
546 Surf Scoter 1 Rock Sandpiper
4 White-winged Scoter 554 Dunlin
11 Black Scoter 156 peep, sp.
792 Bufflehead 1 dowitcher, sp.
76 Common Goldeneye 43 Common Snipe
4 Hooded Merganser 1 Pomarine Jaeger
85 Common Merganser 1 Parasitic Jaeger
38 Red-breasted Merganser 10 Bonaparte's Gull
197 Ruddy Duck 79 Heermann's Gull
15 Osprey 406 Mew Gull
8 White-tailed Kite 371 Ring-billed Gull
1 Bald Eagle 1198 California Gull

122 Herring Gull 338 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
11 Thayer's Gull 276 Western Bluebird
901 Western Gull 117 Hermit Thrush
10 Western X Glaucous-winged Gull 3215 American Robin
276 Glaucous-winged Gull 59 Varied Thrush
1 Glaucous Gull 62 Wrentit
847 gull, sp 19 Northern Mockingbird
68 Common Murre 1423 European Starling
4 Pigeon Guillemot 9 American Pipit
15 Marbled Murrelet 3 Orange-crowned Warbler
2 Ancient Murrelet 2 Yellow-rumped (Myrtle) Warbler
5 murrelet, sp 1 Yellow-rumped (Audubon's) Warbler
1 Rhinoceros Auklet 461 Yellow-rumped Warbler
89 Rock Dove 81 Townsend's Warbler
12 Band-tailed Pigeon 1 Hermit Warbler
124 Mourning Dove 3 Common Yellowthroat
1 Barn Owl 147 Spotted Towhee
1 Western Screech-Owl 314 California Towhee
21 Great Horned Owl 5 Lark Sparrow
3 Northern Pygmy-Owl 15 Savannah Sparrow
1 Spotted Owl 104 Fox Sparrow
141 Anna's Hummingbird 237 Song Sparrow
4 hummingbird, sp. 1 Lincoln's Sparrow
32 Belted Kingfisher 6 White-throated Sparrow
91 Acorn Woodpecker 1117 White-crowned Sparrow
1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1102 Golden-crowned Sparrow
11 Red-breasted Sapsucker 24 sparrow, sp
43 Nuttall's Woodpecker 1597 Dark-eyed (Oregon) Junco
25 Downy Woodpecker 336 Red-winged Blackbird
23 Hairy Woodpecker 27 Tricolored Blackbird
1 Northern (Yellow-shafted) Flicker 472 Western Meadowlark
16 Northern (Red-shafted) Flicker 1607 Brewer's Blackbird
147 Northern Flicker 250 blackbird, sp.
5 Northern (Yel-sh. X Red-sh.) 18 Purple Finch
12 Pileated Woodpecker 387 House Finch
181 Black Phoebe 442 Pine Siskin
13 Say's Phoebe 83 Lesser Goldfinch
22 Hutton's Vireo 39 American Goldfinch
260 Steller's Jay 195 House Sparrow
445 Western Scrub-Jay
537 American Crow 39746 Individuals
294 Common Raven 178 Species
1 swallow, sp 2 Additional Forms
646 Chestnut-backed Chickadee 1 Hybrid
48 Oak Titmouse 1 Intergrade
416 Bushtit 178 Cumulative Species
10 Red-breasted Nuthatch
24 White-breasted Nuthatch
69 Pygmy Nuthatch
27 Brown Creeper
27 Bewick's Wren
1 House Wren
32 Winter Wren
19 Marsh Wren
1 wren, sp.
54 Golden-crowned Kinglet

Bird entries not counted as species are indented.

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