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Birds of Winter Creek Our Port Orchard property offers a great variety habitat for year-round and migratory birds. On the 25 acres of secondary forest, which is interspersed with wetlands, many native plants thrive, providing food and shelter to the birds. Alders are an important source of food for woodpeckers and also provide housing for the cavity nesters. Large Douglas Firs, Cedars, and Maples also grow on our property and are perfect for gleaning birds to feed on and to find protection. Many birds are difficult to spot due to the tall thick tree canopy, so some birds I’ve only heard. For the ground dwelling birds, the undergrowth is thick with Salal, Sword Ferns and Huckleberry. Salmonberry, Indian Plum, Snowberry, and Red Elderberry also grow on the property and offer food during the summer and fall. Click here for a description of the Port Orchard property also called Winter Creek. Below are a few of the birds I’ve identified at the property. I’m sure there are many more and I still have a lot of time to spend looking and listening for them. Click on the bird name to see a picture of it on our property. Great Blue Heron Mallard Canada Goose Red-tailed Hawk Cooper's Hawk Bald Eagle Caspian Tern Glaucous-winged Gull Band-tailed Pigeon Barred Owl Rufous Hummingbird Anna's Hummingbird Red-breasted Sapsucker Pileated Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Olive-sided Flycatcher Western Wood-Pewee Pacific-sloped Flycatcher Tree Swallow Violet-green Swallow Hutton's Vireo Steller’s Jay American Crow Common Raven Black-capped Chickadee Chestnut-backed Chickadee Bushtit Brown Creeper Red-breasted Nuthatch Bewick’s Wren Winter Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Swainson’s Thrush American Robin Varied Thrush Cedar Waxwing European Starling Yellow-rumped Warbler Townsend’s Warbler Wilson’s Warbler Western Tanager Song Sparrow Fox Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Spotted Towhee House Finch American Goldfinch Pine Siskin Winter bird counts (in its infancy) - we've only begun doing an annual bird count so we have no trends or baseline 2006 count 2007 count 2008 count 2009 count 2010 count
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