Subject: Long-eared Owl at Astoria mitigation 2/20/2001
Date: Feb 20 18:10:18 2001
From: Mike Patterson - celata at pacifier.com


Astoria Airport Mitigation Bank, Clatsop County, Oregon
February 20, 2001

A LONG-EARED OWL was calling regularly from a spruce tree
surrounded willows between the main road and the sparrow
transect road. A SWAMP SPARROW was calling from the open
Reed Canary Grass patch on the north side of the transect
road.

Temperature: 13?C
Wind direction: SW
Prevailing wind speed: 12-19 km/h
Percentage of sky covered by clouds: 50%
Barometric pressure: 1014 millibars
Precipitation: none

Sparrow transect 1530-1640hr

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Great Blue Heron 2
Gadwall 2
American Wigeon 58
Mallard 40
Northern Pintail 192
Green-Winged Teal 11
Greater Scaup 26
Bufflehead 75
Hooded Merganser 1
Common Merganser 2
Northern Harrier 2
Cooper's Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 2
Mew Gull 4
Western Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Long-eared Owl 1 [1]
Northern Flicker 4
American Crow 9
Black-capped Chickadee 6
Bewick's Wren 1
Marsh Wren 7
Golden-crowned Kinglet 4
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 5
American Robin 3
European Starling 3
Song Sparrow 4
Swamp Sparrow 1 [2]
Golden-crowned Sparrow 3
Red-winged Blackbird 8

Footnotes:

[1] calling regularly over the observation period
[2] in the reed canary grass

Total number of species seen: 30

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Mike Patterson Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo,
Astoria, OR it is not enough to be persecuted
celata at pacifier.com by an unkind establishment,
you must also be right.
---Robert Park
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