Clatsop County, Oregon on December 15, 2000

Rain Route modified to stay within the boundaries of the Columbia
Estuary CBC 0830-1030

Weather unsettled with hail at the SJCR. Small passerines proved
difficult to coax out of the brush.

Temperature: 4 degrees celsius
Wind direction: SW
prevailing wind speed: 29-38 km/h (small trees in leaf sway)
Percentage of sky covered by clouds: 100%
Precipitation: thunderstorms

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Red-throated Loon
Pacific Loon
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Western Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Canada Goose
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Red-tailed Hawk
American Coot
Killdeer
Sanderling
Least Sandpiper
Dunlin
Mew Gull
Western Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Rock Dove
Belted Kingfisher
Northern Flicker
Steller's Jay
Western Scrub-Jay
American Crow
Common Raven
Black-capped Chickadee
Marsh Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Varied Thrush
European Starling
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Savannah Sparrow [1]
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
Pine Siskin

Footnotes:

[1] At parking lot C, SJCR

Total number of species seen: 53

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