Warrenton, Clatsop County, Oregon on January 15, 2001

0920-1020
Includes King Av, Sewage Ponds and West Youngs Bay

A single SHORT-EARED OWL was at King Ave this morning.
3 NORTHERN HARRIERS sitting on fence posts doing there best
to fool me into thinking there were more.

Temperature: 6 degrees celsius
Wind direction: NE
Prevailing wind speed: 6-11 km/h
Percentage of sky covered by clouds: 10%
Barometric pressure: 1031 inches
Precipitation: none

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Pied-billed Grebe 3
Great Blue Heron 1
Canada Goose 19
Mallard 40
Northern Pintail 160
Canvasback 8
Lesser Scaup 90
Surf Scoter 1
Bufflehead 20
Ruddy Duck 70
Northern Harrier 4
Red-tailed Hawk 2
American Coot 200
Western Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Short-eared Owl 1 [1]
American Crow 9
Black-capped Chickadee 3
Marsh Wren 6
Golden-crowned Kinglet 4
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
American Robin 1
European Starling 5
Fox Sparrow 3
Song Sparrow 6
Lincoln's Sparrow 2
Golden-crowned Sparrow 5
Red-winged Blackbird 2

Footnotes:

[1] King Av

Total number of species seen: 28

--
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
http://www.pacifier.com/~mpatters/bird/bird.html