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Date: August 4, 2001
Location: Kennedy Creek Estuary, Mason County, Washington

Temperature: 20 to 22 degrees celsius
Prevailing wind speed: 6-11 km/h
Percentage of sky covered by clouds: 90%
Precipitation: none

Here between 1618 and 1737 while the tide was rising from 6.6' to
11.0' (Burns Point gage).

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) 1
Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) 20 [1]
Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) 1
Black-bellied Plover (Pluvialis squatarola) 120 [2]
Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) 4
Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca) 1
Least Sandpiper (Calidris minutilla) 100
Dunlin (Calidris alpina) 1
Long-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus scolopaceus) 4
Bonaparte's Gull (Larus philadelphia) 25
Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis) 215
Caspian Tern (Sterna caspia) 1
Belted Kingfisher (Ceryle alcyon) 1 [3]
American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) 15

Footnotes:

[1] Loafing and preening on upper Kennedy Creek.
[2] 1:2 adults:juveniles. Adult moult has begun.
[3] Heard.

Total number of species seen: 14



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Douglas Canning
Olympia, Washington
dcanning at nisquallyestuary.org
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