Subject: Ridgefield birding/Virginia Rail
Date: Apr 8 18:27:24 2000
From: Chaim R Sisson - crsjay at juno.com


Hello Tweeters,

Last Wednesday (April 5) my Gramps, my brother, and I went birding at the
Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge. Great weather all day! I got
three lifers VIRGINIA RAIL, GREAT EGRET and SANDHILL CRANE.
The Virginia Rail most notable of all walked out in front of us numerous
times as we stood about 20 feet away.
Overall we saw 53 species:
American Robin
American Wigeon
Bald Eagle
Barn Swallow
Belted Kingfisher
Bewick's Wren
Blk... Capped-Chickadee
Bufflehead
Canada Geese all three species
Cinnamon Teal
Common Merganser
Common Snipe
Common Yellowthroat
Coot
Cormorant
Crow
Gadwall
Great-Blue Heron
Great Egret
Green-Winged teal
Gull
Killdeer
Mallard
Marsh Wren
Merlin
Northern Flicker
Northern Harrier
Northern Pintail
Northern Rough-Winged Swallow
Northern Shoveler
Peregrine Falcon
Pied-Billed Grebe
Pileated Woodpecker
Red-Breasted Sapsucker
Red-Tailed Hawk
Red-Winged Blackbird
Ring-Necked Duck
Ruby-Crowned Kinglet
Ruddy Duck
Rufous Hummingbird
Sandhill Crane
Savannah Sparrow
Scrub Jay
Song Sparrow
Starling
Tree Swallow
Turkey Vulture
Virginia Rail
Violet-Green Swallow
Wood Duck
Yellowlegs
Yellow-Rumped Warbler


Chaim Sisson
Olympia, WA
crsjay at juno.com
age 12














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