Census Count: Warrenton, Clatsop County, Oregon on December 10, 2000
Skipanon River around the boat basin

Temperature: 4 degrees celsius
Wind direction: SE
prevailing wind speed: 12-19 km/h (leaves, small twigs in constant motion)
Percentage of sky covered by clouds: 4%
Barometric pressure (millibars): 1020
Precipitation: none

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Pied-billed Grebe 1
Double-crested Cormorant 6
Mallard 13
Green-Winged Teal 1
Canvasback 1
Greater Scaup 1
Bufflehead 7
Red-tailed Hawk 2
Merlin 1 [1]
Common Snipe 1
Mew Gull 36
Herring Gull 3
Western Gull 12
Glaucous-winged Gull 3
Glaucous-winged x Western Gull 14
Unidentified gull 20
Belted Kingfisher 1
American Crow 8
Black-capped Chickadee 2
Winter Wren 3
Marsh Wren 5
Golden-crowned Kinglet 4
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
European Starling 52
Fox Sparrow 10
Song Sparrow 22
Lincoln's Sparrow 1
Zonotrichia sp. 1 [2]
Red-winged Blackbird 1
Brewer's Blackbird 12
House Finch 6
Pine Siskin 33
American Goldfinch 1

Footnotes:

[1] Sat on a power pole at the boat basin and watched me pish for
sparrows.
[2] Probably a White-crowned Sparrow, but it found the Merlin too
threatening and would not come out.

Total number of species seen: 33


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