Subject: Brownsmead, Clatsop County, Oregon on February 03, 2001
Date: Feb 3 12:40:53 2001
From: Mike Patterson - celata at pacifier.com
Brownsmead, Clatsop County, Oregon on February 03, 2001
Temperature: 50? F
Wind direction: E
Prevailing wind speed: 12-19 km/h
Percentage of sky covered by clouds: 10%
Precipitation: none
Raptor counts:
White-tailed Kite 1 [2]
Bald Eagle 13 [3]
Northern Harrier 12
Red-tailed Hawk 11
American Kestrel 1
Merlin 2
Peregrine Falcon 2
Shorebird counts
Greater Yellowlegs 36 [4]
Long-billed Dowitcher 43 [5]
Common Snipe 8
Other birds seen (in taxonomic order):
Pied-billed Grebe
Western Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Greater White-fronted Goose [1]
Canada Goose
Tundra Swan
Wood Duck
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-Winged Teal
Canvasback
Greater Scaup
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Ruddy Duck
American Coot
Mew Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Western Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Belted Kingfisher
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Steller's Jay
Western Scrub-Jay
American Crow
Common Raven
Black-capped Chickadee
Winter Wren
Marsh Wren
American Dipper
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
American Robin
Varied Thrush
European Starling
Spotted Towhee
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
House Finch
Pine Siskin
House Sparrow
Footnotes:
[1] At Ziak's
[2] immature
[3] an additional 7 at Twilight Eagle Sanctuary
[4] In a single group
[5] With Greater Yellowlegs
Total number of species seen: 63
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