Brownsmead, Clatsop County, Oregon
December 20, 2001 0920-1110hr

A very bedraggled TURKEY VULTURE was sitting in a tree on
Pentilla Rd. A WHITE-TAILED KITE was at the usual spot
on Brownsmead Dike Rd. There are lots of sparrows around,
but I didn't have the time to work every flock. An ORANGE-
CROWNED WARBLER was in the Aldrich Pt flock.

The fields are really full of water which has spread the
ducks and geese out pretty thoroughly. GADWALL are
everywhere.

Raptor Count

Turkey Vulture 1 [1]
White-tailed Kite 1
Northern Harrier 3
Cooper's Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 10
Peregrine Falcon 1

Other birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Red-necked Grebe 1
Western Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Canada Goose
Tundra Swan
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-Winged Teal
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
American Coot
Greater Yellowlegs 3
Dunlin 40
Mew Gull
Western Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Belted Kingfisher
Northern Flicker
Steller's Jay
Western Scrub-Jay
American Crow
Common Raven
Black-capped Chickadee
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Bushtit
Bewick's Wren
Winter Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
American Robin
Varied Thrush
European Starling
Orange-crowned Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Spotted Towhee
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
House Sparrow

Footnotes:

[1] Pentilla Rd; sitting in a tree looking soggy.

Total number of species seen: 60

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but in the end they always fall.
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