Astoria, Clatsop County, Oregon on December 11, 2000

Temperature: 4 degrees celsius
Wind direction: E
prevailing wind speed: 12-19 km/h (leaves, small twigs in constant motion)
Percentage of sky covered by clouds: 50%
Barometric pressure (millibars): 1017
Precipitation: none

Astoria Sewage Treatment Ponds 0930-1000hr
A very quick check of the ponds without a spotting scope.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Great Blue Heron 1
Mallard 14
Northern Shoveler 40
Ring-necked Duck 2
Greater Scaup 40
Lesser Scaup 230
Bufflehead 27
Common Merganser 12
Ruddy Duck 35
Dunlin 2000 [1]
Mew Gull 60
Glaucous-winged Gull 1
Unidentified gull 30
Western Scrub-Jay 3
American Crow 8
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
American Robin 1
Varied Thrush 1
European Starling 3
Fox Sparrow 7
Song Sparrow 7
Dark-eyed Junco 6
Pine Siskin 120
House Sparrow 35

Footnotes:

[1] Sleeping out high tide on the bank of pond 1.

Total number of species seen: 24

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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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