Brownsmead, Clatsop County,
Oregon on October 08, 2001 0810-0930hr
Raptor Count

What if they had a duck season and there weren't any ducks?

The ducks have not yet arrived in any substantial numbers which
makes me wonder what those guys in the camo-boats do all morning.

I did find a flock of 12 GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE on Jackson
Rd. with CANADA GEESE. There were 75 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS
and 2 GREATER YELLOWLEGS in the ponds at the Ziak Refuge.

A reduced pigment HOUSE SPARROW (basically all buffy with
no other markings) was at the EMU farm on Aldrich Pt Rd. Lots
of GOLDEN-CROWNED SPARROWS everywhere.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Pied-billed Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Greater White-fronted Goose 12
Canada Goose
Mallard
Greater Scaup
Bald Eagle 2
Northern Harrier 2
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 4
Killdeer 3
Greater Yellowlegs 2
Long-billed Dowitcher 75
Ring-billed Gull
Western Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Belted Kingfisher
Northern Flicker
Steller's Jay
Western Scrub-Jay
American Crow
Common Raven
Black-capped Chickadee
Bewick's Wren
Winter Wren
Marsh Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
American Robin
Savannah Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow [1]

Footnotes:

[1] including a buff-colored, reduced pigment individual with no
brown, black or gray.

Total number of species seen: 39

--
Mike Patterson When I despair, I remember
Astoria, OR that all through history
celata at pacifier.com the way of truth and love have always won.
There have been tyrants, and murderers,
and for a time they can seem invincible,
but in the end they always fall.
Think of it...always.
- Mahatma Gandhi

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