Columbia Estuary Report - 01/17/2000

We have a quarter inch of ice on the streets Saturday, high
winds (115mph at Cannon Beach, about 70mph at Ft Stevens),
no power at my house for 7.5 hours and an absolutely beautiful,
clear sky day today.

The TUFTED DUCK was not on Warrenton Sewage Ponds when I
checked at 0830hr this morning.

I did a station count at Neawanna Wetlands this morning.
There were plenty of sparrows there including a SWAMP
SPARROW (pinking away in the open so as to satisfy skeptics
and big boys alike), at least 3 LINCOLN'S SPARROWS and
a WHITE-THROATED SPARROW. A RUFFED GROUSE (an always pleasant,
never controversial, native Galliform) posed nicely on the
trail at the back of the west pond.

And this is a pretty good time of year to see RUFFED
GROUSE at Ft Stevens along the main road between Battery
Russell and parking lot A.

An adult GLAUCOUS GULL was in a large gull flock on
Wireless Rd during yesterday's storm.

--
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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