Location: Astoria, Clatsop County, Oregon
Date: April 5, 2001

There was a noticeable movement of TOWNSEND'S WARBLERS
this morning. Many were singing. I also observed a
female RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD gleaning insect from a Red
Huckleberry (even though there were plenty of blooming
Salmonberry around).

Temperature: 50?F
Wind direction: N
Prevailing wind speed: 1-5 km/h
Percentage of sky covered by clouds: 30%
Precipitation: none

Shively Park transect 0845-0945hr

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Canada Goose 4
Western Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Band-tailed Pigeon 1 [1]
Anna's Hummingbird 1
Rufous Hummingbird 4 [2]
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 2
Steller's Jay 2
Western Scrub-Jay 1
American Crow 6
Violet-green Swallow 2
Black-capped Chickadee 1
Chestnut-backed Chickadee 2
Brown Creeper 3
Winter Wren 8
Golden-crowned Kinglet 5
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 3
American Robin 9
Varied Thrush 5
European Starling 6
Orange-crowned Warbler 1
Townsend's Warbler 15 [3]
Spotted Towhee 2
Fox Sparrow 2
Dark-eyed Junco 6
Red Crossbill 12
Pine Siskin 29

Footnotes:

[1] first detection
[2] including a female gleaning insects from red huckleberry
[3] in two migrating groups

Total number of species seen: 28

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--
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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