Fort Stevens State Park, Clatsop County, Oregon
August 14, 2001
0700-0830 mostly around parking lots "C" and "D"

I spent a bit of time in the willows between parking lots
"C" and "D" this morning. I flushed a BARN OWL from the
pines east of the jct road out to "C".

Three eclispe plumage NORTHERN PINTAIL were on Trestle
Bay. There were also about 300 CALIFORNIA GULLS and
a scattering of RING-BILLED GULLS.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Brown Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Canada Goose
Mallard
Northern Pintail [1]
Northern Harrier
Semipalmated Plover
Greater Yellowlegs
Western Sandpiper
Ring-billed Gull
California Gull
Western Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Caspian Tern
Barn Owl [2]
Downy Woodpecker
Steller's Jay
American Crow
Barn Swallow [3]
Black-capped Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Bewick's Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Swainson's Thrush
American Robin
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Orange-crowned Warbler
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
House Finch

Footnotes:

[1] 3 in eclipse plumage
[2] flushed from the pines near parking lot "C"
[3] Some adults are still on nests at parking lot "D"

Total number of species seen: 34

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