Columbia Estuary Report - 1/4/96

The Lower Columbia Birders took their monthly expedition in cold, showery
weather. We managed to find 2 SNOWY OWLS at Ft Stevens State Park. The
white bird that has been reported regularly was in the dune nw of parking
lot C. Neal Maine managed full frame video of this bird earlier this week.
A second bird was sitting on a log on Trestle Bay across from parking lot
B. This bird is has heavy black barring and black spotting on the nape
and crown (I think that makes it a female).

Neal also managed to get full frame video of the adult _anatum_ type
PEREGRIN that has been seen regularly at the South Jetty.

Three ANNA'S HUMMINGBIRDS are coming regularly to a feeder near the Flavel
House in Astoria. And just down the street at the end of 6th Street, the
OLDSQUAW is still being seen.


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*********************************** I was of three minds
* Mike Patterson, Astoria, OR * like a tree
* mpatters at orednet.org * in which there are three blackbirds.
*http://www.pacifier.com/~mpatters* -Wallace Stevens