Hello Tweets,

Today Dave Hayden, and my mother and I birded Ridgefield NWR,Vancouver Lake,
and a side trip to Canby,Oregon where we ended the day with observing the
Cassin's Kingbird. Weather conditions mainly consisted of cloudy skies,with
partial clearing, but NO rain or wind. We spent the majority of the day in
Clark Co., mainly at the River S and Carty Units of Ridgefield NWR, then
some additional birding made along Lower River Rd. and the Vancouver Lake
Bottoms, before heading to Canby, where we spent extensive searching for the
Cassin's Kingbird starting at 1:30pm , which was located just before we
arrived, then was NOT seen until 3:45pm, and observed until at least 4:20pm,
as lighting conditions decreased, and we headed for home. The Cassin's
Kingbird was still probably the best bird of the day, although we had
additional highlights in Clark Co., which we were fortunate to see, despite
coverage made by several other birders during our visit from Oregon,
including Owen Schmidt, who was the only birder that remained along with us
to observe the bird until we left, and headed for home. The bird was located
immediately upon it's arrival, but then would fly sporadically around the
west side of Forest Rd., then foraged along a vegetated hillside, before
flying over onto the east side of the road onto a fence row, then headed to
an unknown location. During our fairly lengthy visit to this location we
also noted a few other species including:

1 RED-SHOULDERED HAWK
1 Am.Kestrel
4 Common Snipe
1 Pileated Woodpecker
1 Am.Pipit
16 Western Meadowlarks
4 Lesser Goldfinches

A list of our day's highlights follows at selected locations and times:

River S Unit of Ridgefield NWR, Clark Co. 7:20am-9am

3 Great Egrets
18 Tundra Swans
9 Ring-necked Ducks
1 Greater Scaup
5 Lesser Scaup
1 first-year male SURF SCOTER
7 Ruddy Ducks
13 Northern Harriers
1 "Harlan's" Red-tailed Hawk
1 Am.Kestrel
1 Peregrine Falcon
30+ Common Snipe
2 White-breasted Nuthatches
3 Lincoln's Sparrows
16 Western Meadowlarks

Carty Unit of Ridgefield NWR 9:15am-10:20am

26 Great Egrets(high count)
3 Eurasian Wigeon
4 Northern Harriers
1 Cooper's Hawk
4 Common Snipe
2 Herring Gulls
1 Red-breasted Sapsucker
14 Am.Pipits
4 Lincoln's Sparrows
1 white-striped WHITE-THROATED SPARROW
1 Western Meadowlark

Lower River Road/Vancouver Lake 11am-12pm

1 Common Loon
1 Horned Grebe
2 Great Egrets
6 Greater White-fronted Geese
1 dark-morph Rough-legged Hawk
1 Am.Kestrel
6 Bonaparte's Gulls
1 Herring Gull


Ruth and Patrick Sullivan
GODWIT at worldnet.att.net