Wednesday afternoon I visited the Brady Loop Road area as a
reconnaissance for the Satsop CBC on Saturday. The weather was pretty
good: no wind or rain. The farm fields, however, show little of the
flooding which is so common here in a winter of normal rainfall.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Trumpeter Swan 4 [1]
American Wigeon 160
Mallard 10
Northern Shoveler 10
Northern Pintail 16
Bufflehead 2
Northern Harrier 1 [2]
American Kestrel 1 [3]
American Coot 2
Northern Flicker 2 [4]
Steller's Jay 1
American Crow 300
European Starling 400
Spotted Towhee 1
Song Sparrow 1
Dark-eyed Junco 30

Footnotes:

[1] 2 adults and 2 juveniles
[2] female
[3] male
[4] 1 male, 1 female Red-shafted

Total number of species seen: 16

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Douglas Canning
Olympia, Washington
dcanning at igc.org
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