Woodstock Farm Area/NE Chuckanut Bay Bird Species, 6/14/09 A project of the North Cascades Audubon Society & the City of Bellingham Possible species initially listed by TR Wahl, 2003. Additions reviewed & approved by Paul Woodcock (360)380-3356, paulwoodcock@comcast.net. Help keep this list up to date and useful. C = common U = Uncommon R = Rare GENERAL LOCATION of sighting or species occurrence Fm = Inspiration Point & Farm Area CVs = Upper Chuckanut Creek Estuary and SE Chuckanut Village CVn = Chuckanut Bay Marsh & NW Chuckanut Village Bay = Ch. Rks., Clark Pt. shore, waters N of line betw. Teddy Bear headland & Ch. Rks all S of Jones Point & outside BNSF causeway. SEASONAL OBSERVATIONS/ABUNDANCE JUNE BREEDING SURVEY Winter Spring Sum. Fall Fm CVs CVn Bay 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Red-throated Loon U U U X X Arctic Loon Pacific Loon U X Common Loon C C U C X X X X 1 Yellow-billed Loon Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe C C X X Red-necked Grebe C C U C X Eared Grebe U X Western Grebe C C C X Clark's Grebe American White Pelican Brown Pelican Brandt's Cormorant U X X Double-crested Cormorant C C C C X X X X X Pelagic Cormorant C C C C X X X X 3 American Bittern Great Blue Heron C C C C X X X X X X X 11 Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Turkey Vulture C C X X X X X 1 Greater White-fronted Goose Snow Goose Canada Goose C C C X X X X 12 Brant Trumpeter Swan Tundra Swan Wood Duck U X Gadwall U U X Eurasian Wigeon American Wigeon C C X Mallard C C C C X X X X 11 Blue-winged Teal Cinnamon Teal Northern Shoveler Northern Pintail U U X Green-winged Teal C C C X X
Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup C U X X Lesser Scaup Harlequin Duck U C U C X X X Surf Scoter C U U C X X X X X 4 White-winged Scoter U X Black Scoter Long-tailed Duck U X Bufflehead C C C X X Common Goldeneye C C C X Barrow's Goldeneye C C X Hooded Merganser Common Merganser C X X Red-breasted Merganser C C C X X Ruddy Duck Osprey U X Bald Eagle C C C C X X X X X X 1 Northern Harrier U X Sharp-shinned Hawk U U X X Cooper's Hawk U X 1 Northern Goshawk Red-tailed Hawk C C X X Rough-legged Hawk Golden Eagle American Kestrel Merlin U U X X X X Gyrfalcon Peregrine Falcon R R X Ring-necked Pheasant Ruffed Grouse Blue Grouse Virginia Rail U Sora American Coot Sandhill Crane Black-bellied Plover U X American Golden-Plover Pacific Golden-Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer C C C X X X X 1 Black Oystercatcher C C C X X X X X X 1 Greater Yellowlegs U X Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Willet R X Wandering Tattler Spotted Sandpiper Whimbrel Marbled Godwit Ruddy Turnstone Black Turnstone U X X Surfbird U X Red Knot Sanderling
Western Sandpiper C X Least Sandpiper C X Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Rock Sandpiper Dunlin C X Short-billed Dowitcher Long-billed Dowitcher Wilson's Snipe Red-necked Phalarope Red Phalarope Parasitic Jaeger Bonaparte's Gull U X X Heermann's Gull Mew Gull C C U C X X X Ring-billed Gull U U U X X X California Gull U U U X Herring Gull Thayer's Gull U U X Western Gull Glaucous-winged Gull C C C C X X X X X X X 19 Glaucous Gull Sabine's Gull Black-legged Kittiwake Caspian Tern C C X X X X X X 5 Common Tern Arctic Tern Black Tern Common Murre Pigeon Guillemot U U X X X X 12 Marbled Murrelet Ancient Murrelet Cassin's Auklet Rhinoceros Auklet Tufted Puffin Rock Pigeon Band-tailed Pigeon U X X X 6 Mourning Dove Barn Owl Western Screech-Owl Great Horned Owl Snowy Owl Northern Pygmy-Owl Barred Owl C C C C X 2 Short-eared Owl Northern Saw-whet Owl Common Nighthawk R X X Black Swift Vaux's Swift U X Anna's Hummingbird U X Calliope Hummingbird Rufous Hummingbird C C X X X X X 6 Belted Kingfisher C C C X X X X X X X 1 Red-naped Sapsucker Red-breasted Sapsucker U U X X Downy Woodpecker C C C X X
Hairy Woodpecker U X X White-headed Woodpecker Northern Flicker C C C C X X X X 3 Pileated Woodpecker C C C C X X X 1 Olive-sided Flycatcher U U X X X 2 Western Wood-Pewee U U X X X Willow Flycatcher C C X X X X X Hammond's Flycatcher Dusky Flycatcher Pacific-slope Flycatcher C C X X X X 6 Western Kingbird Eastern Kingbird Northern Shrike Cassin's Vireo Hutton's Vireo U U X X Warbling Vireo C C X X X X X Red-eyed Vireo Gray Jay Steller's Jay C C C C X X X X X 1 Blue Jay Clark's Nutcracker Black-billed Magpie American, NW Crow C C C C X X X X X X X 58 Common Raven C C C C X X X X X X X 2 Purple Martin U X Tree Swallow U X X Violet-green Swallow C C X X X X X X 14 N. Rough-winged Swallow U X X X X 4 Cliff Swallow Barn Swallow C C X X X X X X 6 Black-capped Chickadee C C C C X X X X 1 Mountain Chickadee Chestnut-backed Chickadee C C C C X X X 10 Bushtit C C X X 2 Red-breasted Nuthatch C C C C X X X 4 White-breasted Nuthatch Pygmy Nuthatch Brown Creeper C C C C X X X X 2 Bewick's Wren C C C C X X X X 4 House Wren Winter Wren C C C C X X X X 5 Marsh Wren 2 American Dipper Golden-crowned Kinglet C C C C X X X X 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet C U U C X Western Bluebird Mountain Bluebird Townsend's Solitaire Swainson's Thrush C C X X X X X 5 Hermit Thrush U X American Robin C C C C X X X X 15 Varied Thrush C U C C X European Starling C C X X X X 13 American Pipit U X Bohemian Waxwing Cedar Waxwing C C X X X X X
Orange-crowned Warbler C X X X X Nashville Warbler Yellow Warbler C X X Yellow-rumped Warbler C U X X X X Black-throated Gray Warbler U U X X X X Townsend's Warbler C U X Hermit Warbler MacGillivray's Warbler U X Common Yellowthroat C X X X 1 Wilson's Warbler C C X X X X 6 Western Tanager C C X X X X 4 Spotted Towhee C C C C X X X X 12 American Tree Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Fox Sparrow U X Song Sparrow C C C C X X X X X 7 Lincoln's Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Harris' Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow C C X X X X 7 Golden-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco C C C C X X X X 2 Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting Rose-breasted Grosbeak Black-headed Grosbeak C X X X X 2 Red-winged Blackbird C C C X X X X X X 9 Western Meadowlark Yellow-headed Blackbird Brewer's Blackbird U X Brown-headed Cowbird C C X X X X X 10 Bullock's Oriole Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch Pine Grosbeak U U U X Purple Finch C C X X X X X 3 Cassin's Finch House Finch C C C X X X X 11 Red Crossbill C C C X X X X White-winged Crossbill Common Redpoll Pine Siskin C C C C X X X X American Goldfinch C C X X X X X 13 Evening Grosbeak C C X X 4 House Sparrow C C C X X X 1 Winter Spring Sum. Fall 53 56 67 55 Total 124 Species