-----------Weekend before last visited Julia Butler Whitetail Deer
Refuge, and Willapa Bay Nat'l Wildlife Refuge.
......At the JBWDR at Cathamet, Eash. I saw;
Common Goldeneyes
Lesser Scaups
Ring-necked Ducks
Trumpeter Swans
Horned Grebe
Canada Geese
Great Blue Heron
Bald Eagles(2)
Red-Tailed Hawk

At WBNWR:
Trumpeter Swans(26) at Black Lake at Illwaco, Wash.
Canada Geese
Greater Yellowlegs(4)
Western Sandpipers
Mallards
Ring-necked Ducks
Barrows Goldeneye(1)
Sanderlings
Great Blue Herons
Bufflehead
Western Grebe
Northern Harrier Hawk
Winter Wrens
Willets(?)
Pintails

At 6th. St--Astoria:
Western Grebes
White-winged Scoters
Surf Scoters(many)
Ruddy Ducks(12)
Lesser Scaup
Am. Coots
Pelegic Cormorants(3)

.........Visited Ridgefield Nat'l Wildlife Refuge(Vancouver, Wash.) this
last weekend, on an absolutely beautiful day!!!!
Mallards
Am. Coots(zillions!!!)
Northern Shovelers
Common Mergansers
Bufflehead
Lesser Scaup
Swainson's Hawk(not positive ID---insuffucient time to adequately scope
at the great distance)
No,. Harrier Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Immature Bald Eagle
Pied-billed Grebe
Bushtit
Winter Wrens
Red-winged Blackbirds
Yellow-rumped Warbler(1)
Pintails
Canada Geese
White-fronted Geese(3)(on the edge of a large flock of Canadas')
Sandhill Cranes(mostly on 'off-limits' Bachelor Island)
.......Surprising lack of Am. Widgeons(Have they migrated out
already???)....Wish I had more time to walk around---could have probably
seen more!!!!!!
Gerald Hamilton
Brush Prairie, Wash.
gerald at e-z.net


Double-crested Cormorants(2)




Great Blue Heron
Canada Geese