Columbia Estuary Report - 03/20/2000

A single TURKEY VULTURE was seen over the Neawanna Wetlands
this morning. The first VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOWS I've seen this
year were along Wireless Rd. A flock of 50+ TREE SWALLOWS
were there on Saturday.

There 574 SANDERLINGS on Clatsop Beach (no Dunlin).
A NORTHERN HARRIER was munching on the remains of a
NORTHERN FULMAR.

Four COMMON SNIPE were in a clearcut above Astoria on Mill
Creek. When snipe start hanging out in clearcuts, it must
be migration...

It that time of year when birds are making funny noises.
This morning a RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD was doing passably good
Swainson's Thrush wooks from a tree and a snipe-like
greeeeep in flight at the Neawanna. A Steller's Jay was
doing a pretty good imitation of the outside phone-ring from
the Les Schwaab near the wetlands.

--
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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