Subject: Columbia Estuary - spring arrivals and owl count
Date: Apr 2 20:47:38 1997
From: Mike Patterson - mpatters at orednet.org




Columbia Estuary Report - 4/2/97

CASPIAN TERNS were feeding on Youngs Bay this afternoon. 13 LESSER YELLOWLEGS
and 8 GREATER YELLOWLEGS were working the mudflats on the Lewis & Clark River.

A SAVANA SPARROW was singing at Wireless Rd.

I ran the owl transect this evening. A GREAT HORNED OWL was on the bike path
near parking lot A. A single note response was heard at the site were WESTERN
SCREECH OWL was calling two weeks ago on Ft Clatsop Rd. The NORTHERN SAW-WHET
OWL was extremely vocal at the same site where it had been previously located.

A second GREAT-HORNED OWL is calling outside my house as I write.


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