Astoria Airport Mitigation Bank, Clatsop County, Oregon on December 07, 2000

Wetland transect 0900-1000hr

clear; wind N 16kph; 2?C; 1019

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Great Blue Heron 1
Canada Goose 17
American Wigeon 1
Mallard 7
Northern Pintail 7
Green-Winged Teal 2
Greater Scaup 25
Bufflehead 6
Northern Harrier 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Virginia Rail 5
Sora 2
Unidentified gull 5
Belted Kingfisher 1
Northern Flicker 1
American Crow 1
Black-capped Chickadee 5
Winter Wren 3
Marsh Wren 15
Golden-crowned Kinglet 4
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2
Spotted Towhee 1
Fox Sparrow 4
Song Sparrow 17
Red-winged Blackbird 2
Western Meadowlark 1 [1]
American Goldfinch 6

Footnotes:

[1] calling from the top of an alder

Total number of species seen: 27

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Mike Patterson Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo,
Astoria, OR it is not enough to be persecuted
celata at pacifier.com by an unkind establishment,
you must also be right.
---Robert Park
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