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Nature We've Seen

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1. Bald Eagle
   Padilla Bay
   2 clusters of adults with juviniles; pair of adults flying low over water in the morning
2. Dunlin
   Padilla Bay
   single by water's edge among small rocks
3. Sanderling
   Padilla Bay
   several large flocks
4. Great Blue Heron
   Padilla Bay
   flew from bay over path into farm field and had low flight for a good long way before landing
5. Brandt's Cormorant
   Padilla Bay
   Several in flight and taking off from water.
6. Common Goldeneye
   Padilla Bay
   1st winter male
7. Bufflehead
   Padilla Bay
   "Tiny little duck
8. Song Sparrow
   Padilla Bay
   deep red coloring
9. Red Shouldered Hawk
   Fir Island
   rareÉ perched on top of barn
10. Snowy Owl
    Fir Island
    6 all perched on logs across the river
11. Northern Harrier
    Fir Island
    hunting over prarie
12. Northern Harrier
    Padilla Bay
13. Red tailed Hawk
    Mom & Dad's
    tree near mom & dad's house
14. Northern Pygmy-Owl
    Skagit River
    saw during bald eagle festival
15. Red tailed Hawk
    Skagit River
    drying his tail in a distant tree through the spotting scope. saw during bald eagle festival
16. red necked grebe
    Puget Sound
    on whale watching trip around the islands -- beautiful
17. Pelagic Cormorant
    Puget Sound
    on whale watching trip
18. Northern Pintail
    Padilla Bay
    in groups with lots of american widgeon in the farm fields
19. American Widgeon
    Padilla Bay
20. Black Scoter
    Mom & Dad's
    in distance on sound seen through spotting scope
21. Common Murre
    Puget Sound
    on whale watch
22. Pigeon Guillemot
    Puget Sound
    on whale watch
23. Rhinoceros Auklet
    Puget Sound
    on whale watch
24. Northern Flicker
    Washington Park
    distinctive call and black chest patch; on top of tree
25. Hutton's Vireo
    Fir Island
26. Hutton's Vireo
    Skagit River
27. Killdeer
    Fir Island
    2 different birds. One had a weird behavior where he dug his chest into the mudflat and put his butt into the air.
28. Northern Harrier
    Fir Island
    2 birds sitting on same clump of land and hunting low in the farm fields.
29. Great Blue Heron
    Fir Island
    3 different herons sitting on stumps in the marsh sunning themselves
30. Cedar Waxwing
    Fir Island
    5 or 6 perching in tree and then flying around
31. Swainson's Thrush
    Fir Island
32. Robin
    Fir Island
33. Barn Swallow
    Fir Island
34. Tree Swallow
    Fir Island
35. Ringed Kingfisher
    Fir Island
    around channel that follows the path
36. American Goldfinch
    Fir Island
37. Red Winged Blackbird
    Fir Island
38. California Quail
    Cranberry Lake
    On a branch 15 feet high on a walk up anacopper road. It cood then finally jumped into the brush under the tree.
39. Pigeon Guillemot
    Puget Sound
    Off of the ferry
40. Seagull
    Puget Sound
    Baby seagulls nesting in the ferry docs
41. Ringed Kingfisher
    Puget Sound
    2 birds chasing eachother as they skim along the islandÉ off of the ferry