Christine Sadai and I went to Willapa Bay, Long Beach and Astoria on Friday
last. Attached is the list of what we with the addition of a Common Raven I
saw alone.
Rahne Kirkham
rahne at mindspring.com
Federal Way, Washington

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Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 8:57 PM

Common Loon - 3 at the jetty
Sooty Shearwater - big flock off Long Beach
Brown Pelican - lots at the jetty, none on the Washington side
Double-crested Cormorant
Brandt's Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant - one swimming in the Columbia
Great Blue Heron
Canada Goose
Mallard
Black Scoter - one swimming off the jetty
Surf Scoter - one in Willapa NWR, a flock off the jetty
Turkey Vulture - circling over the Columbia
Red-tailed Hawk - several E of Astoria
Semipalmated Plover - 3 or 4 on the west side of Leadbetter Point
Lesser Yellowlegs - 3 at southend of Willapa NWR
Ruddy Turnstone (full breeding plumage) - west side of LP
Sanderling - flock on west side of LP
Semipalmated Sandpiper - one on east side of LP
Western Sandpiper - big flocks on both sides of LP
Least Sandpiper - several on west side of LP
Heermann's Gull - several at Long Beach, LP
Ring-billed Gull
California Gull
Western Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Caspian tern
Forster's Tern - several on east side of LP
Common Murre - big flocks offshore
Pigeon Guillemot - two off jetty, one in basic plumage, one in alternate
Rock Dove
Belted Kingfisher
Northern Flicker
Violet-green Swallow
Barn Swallow
Cedar Waxwing
American Robin
Black-capped Chickadee
Lincoln Sparrow - one at jetty
Red-winged Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
House Finch
Stellar's Jay
American Crow