Astoria Airport Mitigation Bank, Clatsop County, Oregon
August 10, 2001

Wetland transect 0920 - 1010

AMERICAN ROBINS are beginning to flock up. At least 80
RING-BILLED GULLS were on the exposed mudflats of the Lewis
and Clark River. There were also 100's of Western/Gl-winged
Gulls that I didn't bother to sort.

A VIRGINIA RAIL was making pig noises I usually associate
with hatch-year birds.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Double-crested Cormorant 3
Great Blue Heron 1
Turkey Vulture 1
Mallard 1
Bald Eagle 4 [1]
Virginia Rail 1 [2]
Western Sandpiper 17
Ring-billed Gull 80 [3]
Unidentified gull 400
Caspian Tern 3
American Crow 5
Common Raven 1
Violet-green Swallow 3
Barn Swallow 66
Black-capped Chickadee 2
Bewick's Wren 1
Marsh Wren 5
Swainson's Thrush 1
American Robin 23 [4]
Cedar Waxwing 10
Common Yellowthroat 2
Savannah Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 5
Purple Finch 3
House Finch 2
Red Crossbill 2

Footnotes:

[1] 1 ad;1 3y;2 hy
[2] making pig noises, probably hy
[3] most hy and 1st summer
[4] most in 1 loose flock

Total number of species seen: 26

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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.
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