This report was mailed for Wayne Weber by http://birdnotes.net

Date: June 16, 2001
Location: Conboy National Wildlife Refuge, Klickitat County, Washington

Low temperature: 45 degrees fahrenheit High temperature: 75 degrees fahrenheit
Wind direction: W
Prevailing wind speed: 1-5 km/h gusting to: 20-28 km/h
Percentage of sky covered by clouds: 0%
Precipitation: none

This list is for the Washington Ornithological Society meeting field
trip led by Joe Engler. Many thanks to Joe for his expert leadership.
I probably missed a few species that were seen by others and not by
me. If you saw additional species, please let me know by E-mail, and
I will forward the amended list to the WOS meeting organizers.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Great Blue Heron 1
Turkey Vulture 4
Wood Duck 2
Mallard 2 [1]
Cinnamon Teal 1
Green-Winged Teal 1
Bald Eagle 1 [2]
Northern Harrier 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Cooper's Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 2
American Kestrel 1 [3]
Virginia Rail 1
Sora 1
Sandhill Crane 13 [4]
Common Snipe 4
Black Tern 2 [5]
Rock Dove 4
Common Nighthawk 5
Calliope Hummingbird 1 [6]
Red-breasted Sapsucker 4
Hairy Woodpecker 3
Northern Flicker 2
Pileated Woodpecker 1
Olive-sided Flycatcher 1
Western Wood-Pewee 8
Willow Flycatcher 2
Hammond's Flycatcher 2
Gray Flycatcher 1 [7]
Western Kingbird 2 [8]
Eastern Kingbird 4
Cassin's Vireo 5
Warbling Vireo 2
American Crow 8
Common Raven 2
Tree Swallow 20
Cliff Swallow 15
Barn Swallow 2
Mountain Chickadee 2
Chestnut-backed Chickadee 5
Red-breasted Nuthatch 8
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
Pygmy Nuthatch 5 [9]
Brown Creeper 1
House Wren 3
Western Bluebird 1 [10]
Townsend's Solitaire 2
Hermit Thrush 1
American Robin 15
European Starling 150 [11]
Cedar Waxwing 8
Nashville Warbler 5
Yellow Warbler 8
Yellow-rumped Warbler 1
Townsend's Warbler 4
MacGillivray's Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 10
Western Tanager 4
Spotted Towhee 2
Chipping Sparrow 6
Savannah Sparrow 4
Song Sparrow 10
White-crowned Sparrow 6 [12]
Dark-eyed Junco 8
Black-headed Grosbeak 3
Lazuli Bunting 5
Red-winged Blackbird 25
Western Meadowlark 6
Yellow-headed Blackbird 3
Brewer's Blackbird 2
Brown-headed Cowbird 2
Purple Finch 1
Red Crossbill 4
Pine Siskin 1
American Goldfinch 8
Evening Grosbeak 1 [13]
House Sparrow 2

Footnotes:

[1] 1 female with brood crossing road
[2] adult
[3] 1 visiting nesting cavity in ponderosa pine near refuge HQ
[4] 3 ads., including one paor with a colt; group of 10 immatures
together
[5] flying over marsh, possibly nesting
[6] male
[7] near refuge HQ
[8] near refuge HQ
[9] near refuge HQ
[10] male
[11] two large flocks of juveniles near refuge HQ, also a couple of
pairs nesting nearby
[12] "pugetensis" form
[13] heard flying overhead

Total number of species seen: 77