Subject: Astoria, Clatsop County, Oregon on February 27, 2001
Date: Feb 27 11:40:37 2001
From: Mike Patterson - celata at pacifier.com


Shively Park, Astoria, Clatsop County, Oregon
Date: February 27, 2001

An adult GLAUCOUS GULL made a most unusual low flyover
on our walk this morning to Shivley Park. AMERICAN
ROBINS have been working over the holly trees in the
neighborhood.

I found the first SALMONBERRY (Rubus spectabilis) blooms
of the season (two blossoms on a single cane).

Temperature: 45?F
Wind direction: NE
Prevailing wind speed: 6-11 km/h
Percentage of sky covered by clouds: 0%
Precipitation: none

Shively Park 0900-1010hr

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Western Gull 4
Glaucous-winged Gull 3
Glaucous Gull 1 [1]
Unidentified gull 20
Northern Flicker 1
Hutton's Vireo 3 [2]
Steller's Jay 7
Western Scrub-Jay 1
American Crow 2
Common Raven 1
Black-capped Chickadee 2
Chestnut-backed Chickadee 7
Red-breasted Nuthatch 2
Brown Creeper 4 [3]
Winter Wren 8
Golden-crowned Kinglet 25
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2
American Robin 34
Varied Thrush 1
European Starling 3
Townsend's Warbler 2
Fox Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 1
Dark-eyed Junco 5
Red Crossbill 21 [4]
Pine Siskin 70

Footnotes:

[1] spectacular adult; circled around overhead
[2] 2 singing
[3] all 4 were singing
[4] mostly type-3

Total number of species seen: 26

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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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