Date: March 22, 2001
Location: Pacific County, Washington

Temperature: 48 degrees fahrenheit
Wind direction: NE
Prevailing wind speed: 1-5 km/h
Percentage of sky covered by clouds: 0%
Precipitation: none

Chinook Valley Raptor count 0840-1010hr

White-tailed Kite 2 [1]
Bald Eagle 1 [2]
Northern Harrier 4

Other birds seen (in taxonomic order):
Horned Grebe 1
Western Grebe 5
Clark's Grebe 1
Brandt's Cormorant 1
Double-crested Cormorant 15
Great Blue Heron 2
Canada Goose 300
Wood Duck 2
American Wigeon
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Green-Winged Teal
Ring-necked Duck 3
Greater Scaup 6
Surf Scoter 3
Killdeer 1
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Mew Gull
California Gull
Herring Gull
Western Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Black-legged Kittiwake 1 [3]
Rufous Hummingbird 3
Steller's Jay
American Crow
Common Raven
Tree Swallow 8 [4]
Violet-green Swallow 2 [5]
Black-capped Chickadee
Bushtit
Bewick's Wren
Winter Wren
Marsh Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
American Robin
Varied Thrush
European Starling
Townsend's Warbler 1
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
Red Crossbill
Pine Siskin
House Sparrow

Footnotes:

[1] from Lingenfelter Rd
[2] A just turning white adult sharing carrion with Ravens
[3] At the Megler Bridge
[4] Near the ponys at Chinook Valley
[5] 1 at Chinook Valley; 1 at Ilwaco airport

Total number of species seen: 52

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