Decided some student papers could wait a little longer this afternoon and
took a whirl at toeard Vancouver Lake. Here are some highlights:

--No Red-shouldered Hawk. Lots of Red-tails, Kestrels, Harriers, a couple
of Bald Eagles. One female Harrier I clocked at 40 mph in high speed
pursuit of a Staffordshire Bull terrier running across a field.

--Still many Canada Geese, Sandhill Cranes, and Tundra Swans in the area.
Had about 10 SNOW GEESE in with the Swans (RK to himself "those are darned
small swans . . .")

--3 Great Horned Owls on nests in the area.

--Great Blue Heron activity at both the heronry just out of town and the
Frenchman's Bar heronry was high. Scanned the trees for a white bird
rather than a Great Blue, but no luck. However, there were 20 GREAT
EGRETS just outside of town (in the ponds next to the heronry just past
the big red barn) and 2 EGRETS were near the Frenchman's Bar rookery.

--Various and sundry ducks and small birds. Didn't really bird these
intensely; was raptor and nest watching mostly.

All in all, not a bad afternoon. RK

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Ray Korpi "[On the corpse] sat a huge seagull, busily
Portland, OR/Vancouver, WA gorging itself with the horrible flesh, its bill
rkorpi at clark.edu and talons deep buried, and its white
President, Oregon Field plumage spattered all over with blood."
Ornithologists --Edgar Allan Poe, _Narrative_of_
**Inquiries on Oregon birds Arthur_Gordon_Pym_
always welcome**