Here is the complete list of birds that we have seen on this trip. New birds in bold, birds spotted but not seen by the rest of the class in italics.
NISQUALLY WILDLIFE REFUGE
- Northern pintail
- Cinnamon teal
- Common goldeneye
- Hooded merganser
- Cackling geese (huge flock 200+)
- Greater white-fronted geese
- Greater yellowlegs
- Ring-billed gull
- Northern goshawk
- Downy woodpecker
- Rufous hummingbird (+ female on nest)
- Violet-green swallow
- Cliff swallow (seen landing on ground and feeding)
- Common yellowthroat
- Barrow’s goldeneye
- Herring gull
- Some sp. of dark-backed gull, similar to Western
- Bank swallow
- Band-tailed pigeon
- Green-winged teal
- Mallard
- American wigeon
- Northern shoveler
- Ring-necked duck
- Bufflehead
- Canada geese
- Great blue heron
- American coot
- Virginia rail
- Double-crested cormorant
- Glaucous-winged gull
- Killdeer
- Bald eagle
- Red-tailed hawk (on the drive back)
- Tree swallow
- Rock dove
- Red-winged blackbird
- Pacific wren
- Marsh wren
- Chickadee (sp. probably chestnut-backed)
- Song sparrow
- Savannah sparrow
- Golden-crowned sparrow
- White-crowned sparrow
- Spotted towhee
- Yellow-rumped warbler
- American crow
- American robin
- European starling (exotic)
MIMA MOUNDS
- Northern harrier (female, probably on nest)
- Rough-legged hawk, dark morph
- Osprey
- Western bluebird
- Dark-eyed junco
- Also mule deer
UW Aves 
April 22, 2013 at 6:49 pm
Wow. I really missed out on some birds.
However: I saw a downy and pileated woodpecker in Forest Grove, OR this weekend, and a TON of hawks on the way down. Unfortunately it’s really difficult to ID birds while you’re driving past them in a car.