Subject: Cannon Beach Sewage Ponds, Clatsop County, OR December 19, 2000
Date: Dec 19 13:00:21 2000
From: Mike Patterson - celata at pacifier.com


Cannon Beach Sewage Ponds 1005hr-1035hr

Temperature: 6 degrees celsius
Wind direction: SW
prevailing wind speed: 6-11 km/h
Percentage of sky covered by clouds: 100%
Barometric pressure (millibars): 1023
Precipitation: drizzle

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Greater White-fronted Goose 1 [1]
Canada Goose 4 [2]
Mallard 2
Northern Shoveler 22
Green-Winged Teal 13
Ring-necked Duck 11
Greater Scaup 8
Lesser Scaup 41
Bufflehead 15
Ruddy Duck 3
American Coot 3
Mew Gull 60
Glaucous-winged Gull 4
Glaucous-winged x Western Gull 2
Northern Flicker 1
Steller's Jay 1
American Crow 9
Chestnut-backed Chickadee 2
Winter Wren 2
Golden-crowned Kinglet 12
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
Townsend's Warbler 1
Fox Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 3
Dark-eyed Junco 8
Pine Siskin 110

Footnotes:

[1] With the Canada Geese
[2] All Cackling Geese

Total number of species seen: 26

Archived at: http://birdnotes.net

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Mike Patterson Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo,
Astoria, OR it is not enough to be persecuted
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---Robert Park
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