Columbia Estuary Report - 11/21/1999

A large secondary movement of wintering ducks has
dropped in on the Estuary. NORTHERN PINTAIL, BUFFLEHEAD,
GADWALL and scaup all appear to be in winter numbers.

A flock of 17 BONAPARTE'S GULLS and a SURF SCOTER were
at the Neawanna Wetland Ponds on Saturday

Astoria Airport Sparrow Patch Census
21 Nov 1999

Date 19991121
Time 0910-0950
Wind V5
Sky mst cldy
Rain showers
Temperature 54F
Pressure 1022

Heron, Great Blue GBLH 1
Kinglet, RC RCKI 1
Mallard MALL 2
Sparrow, Fox FOSP 7
Sparrow, GC GCSP 4
Sparrow, Lincoln LISP 1
Sparrow, Song SOSP 10
Teal, Green-winged GWTE 1
Wren, Bewick's BEWR 1
Wren, Marsh MAWR 4

Diversity 10
Density 32


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Mike Patterson The common view of science is that it is a sort of machine
Astoria, OR for increasing the race's store of dependable facts.
mpatters at oregonvos.net It is that only in part; in even larger part
it is a machine for upsetting undependable facts.

----- H.L.Mencken
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