Brownsmead, Clatsop County, Oregon
Dec 3, 2001 0900-1030hr

There is a lot of water around Brownsmead with a bit
of standing water still on Jackson Rd. A PEREGRINE
FALCON was dining on MEW GULL this morning there.

WHITE-TAILED KITES were seen at Bughole Rd and Pentilla
Rd. 150 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS were at the Ziak Refuge.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Common Loon 1
Pied-billed Grebe 5
Horned Grebe 1
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Canada Goose
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Green-Winged Teal
Greater Scaup
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
White-tailed Kite 2
Bald Eagle 2
Northern Harrier 8
Red-tailed Hawk 8
American Kestrel 3
Peregrine Falcon 2 [1]
American Coot
Long-billed Dowitcher 150
Mew Gull
Western Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Belted Kingfisher
Northern Flicker
Steller's Jay
Western Scrub-Jay
American Crow
Common Raven
Black-capped Chickadee
Winter Wren
Marsh Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
American Robin
Varied Thrush
European Starling
Spotted Towhee
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
Pine Siskin
House Sparrow

Footnotes:

[1] one was eating a Mew Gull

Total number of species seen: 47


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