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Date: August 16, 2001
Location: Astoria Sewage Ponds, Clatsop County, Oregon

Temperature: 70 degrees fahrenheit
Wind direction: NW
Prevailing wind speed: 1-5 km/h
Percentage of sky covered by clouds: 100%
Precipitation: haze or fog

>From 1500-1600 hrs I returned to the Sewage ponds (via the railroad
tracks from Alderbrook) hoping to cath sight/ear of the possible
Yellow-breasted Chat again, but to no avail. I did brifly hear two
"churrts" that reminded me of yesterday, but that was
all....frustrating!
The Purple Martins and Bonaparte's almost made up for it.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Double-crested Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
Turkey Vulture 1
Mallard
Virginia Rail 1 [1]
Western Sandpiper 6
Least Sandpiper 21
Bonaparte's Gull 2
Ring-billed Gull 1
California Gull
Western Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Glaucous-winged x Western Gull
Caspian Tern
Band-tailed Pigeon 3
Belted Kingfisher 2
Northern Flicker 7 [2]
Western Wood-Pewee 1
Hutton's Vireo 1
Steller's Jay 1
Western Scrub-Jay 2
American Crow
Purple Martin 8 [3]
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 2
Cliff Swallow 5
Barn Swallow
Black-capped Chickadee 15
Bushtit 6
Bewick's Wren 4
Marsh Wren 1
American Robin 1
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing 5
Orange-crowned Warbler 1
Yellow Warbler 5
Black-throated Gray Warbler 1 [4]
Common Yellowthroat 5
Wilson's Warbler 11
Song Sparrow 25
White-crowned Sparrow 3 [5]
Brown-headed Cowbird 1 [6]

Footnotes:

[1] calling
[2] 6 of these were in probable family group
[3] using a newish martin house on a pipe in the lagoon in fron of
Alderbrook
[4] feeding fledgling Brown-headed cowbird
[5] all juveniles
[6] fledgling

Total number of species seen: 41