Date: February 9, 2001
Location: Pacific County, Washington
Includes Chinook Valley raptor count and collared Canada Goose report.

White-tailed Kite 2
Bald Eagle 3
Northern Harrier 1
Red-tailed Hawk 2
Rough-legged Hawk 2
Northern Shrike 1 [3]

Temperature: 45 degrees fahrenheit
Wind direction: N
Prevailing wind speed: 20-28 km/h
Percentage of sky covered by clouds: 50%
Precipitation: none

Other birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Pied-billed Grebe 1
Double-crested Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Canada Goose 400 [1]
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Surf Scoter
Bufflehead
Red-breasted Merganser
Killdeer
Mew Gull
Herring Gull
Western Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Black-legged Kittiwake 2 [2]
Belted Kingfisher
Northern Flicker
Steller's Jay
American Crow
Common Raven
Black-capped Chickadee
Winter Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
American Robin
European Starling
Song Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Brewer's Blackbird
Pine Siskin
House Sparrow

Footnotes:

[1] 2 with blue collars; F.A8 and J.K7
[2] 1 sitting on beach at Ft Canby; 1 flying in group of gulls at
OR/WA bridge.
[3] At the pony farm on Chinook Valley Rd.

Total number of species seen: 40


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