date and time: 02 January 2026, from 06:30 to noon
weather: high, thin clouds all morning; windy all morning- SE 5-10 mph from before sunrise to about 09:45, then 10-15 mph, still out of the SE; temp 52- 58 degrees F.
route: standard Trochet
solo survey
birds:
snow goose- 160 (including 2 blue morphs)
Ross’s goose- 1
greater white-fronted goose- 3150
Canada goose- 57
cackling goose- 110 (seemingly mostly leucopareia)
dark goose sp.- 2200
cinnamon teal- 8
northern shoveler- 140
gadwall- 120
American wigeon- 60
mallard- 110
northern pintail- 650
green-winged teal- 1180
ring-necked duck- 68
bufflehead- 32
common goldeneye- 1
duck sp.- 250
pied-billed grebe- 3
sandhill crane- 46
American coot- 370 (low)
black-necked stilt- 150
killdeer- 6
long-billed dowitcher- 85
Wilson’s snipe- 6
greater yellowlegs- 22
ring-billed gull- 4
California gull- 1
American herring gull- 8
gull sp.- 8
double-crested cormorant- 6
snowy egret- 2
great egret- 7
turkey vulture- 4
white-tailed kite- 3
northern harrier- 6
sharp-shinned hawk- 1
red-tailed hawk- 1
downy woodpecker- 1
Nuttall’s woodpecker- 9
northern flicker- 3
northern (red-shafted) flicker- 4
American kestrel- 3
black phoebe- 17
Say’s phoebe- 6 (new high for this survey I think)
California scrub-jay- 7
American crow- 15
common raven- 2
oak titmouse- 8
tree swallow- 40
barn swallow- 1
bushtit- 38
wrentit- 2
ruby-crowned kinglet- 25
golden-crowned kinglet- 2
Bewick’s wren- 4
northern house wren- 1
marsh wren- 18
western bluebird- 8
hermit thrush- 1
American pipit- 75
house finch- 30
American goldfinch- 2
fox sparrow- 1 (heard only)
dark-eyed (Oregon) junco- 3
Gambel’s white-crowned sparrow- 6
pugetensis white-crowned sparrow- 4
white-crowned sparrow- 4
golden-crowned sparrow- 20
white-throated sparrow- 1 (tan striped)
Savannah sparrow- 55
song sparrow- 20
Lincoln’s sparrow- 3
sparrow sp.- 8
spotted towhee- 19
western meadowlark- 7
red-winged blackbird- 4200
Brewer’s blackbird- 110
blackbird sp.- 32,000
orange-crowned warbler- 2
common yellowthroat- 1
Audubon’s warbler- 70
myrtle warbler- 3
Audubon’s warbler x myrtle warbler- 3
yellow-rumped warbler ssp.- 12