Subject: Astoria Airport Mitigation Bank - September 18, 2001
Date: Sep 18 12:04:10 2001
From: Mike Patterson - celata at pacifier.com


Astoria Airport Mitigation Bank, Clatsop Co, OR
September 18, 2001
wetland transect - 0910-1000hr

An apparent movement of VIRGINIA RAILS (an unappreciated event)
seemed evident today with rails calling from most parts of the
wetland without invitation. A hunter was working hard to get
a few BAND-TAILED PIGEONS, my impression was that he was not too
successful.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Double-crested Cormorant 1
Great Blue Heron 3
Turkey Vulture 1
Northern Pintail 1
Red-tailed Hawk 2
Virginia Rail 10 [1]
Killdeer 1
Western Sandpiper 4
Common Snipe 2
Glaucous-winged Gull 1
Unidentified gull 50
Band-tailed Pigeon 18 [2]
Belted Kingfisher 2
Downy Woodpecker 2
Hutton's Vireo 1
American Crow 15
Purple Martin 1 [3]
Barn Swallow 12
Black-capped Chickadee 7
Bushtit 4
Bewick's Wren 2
Marsh Wren 19
Swainson's Thrush 1
American Robin 5
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing 5
Common Yellowthroat 5
Spotted Towhee 2
Fox Sparrow 2
Song Sparrow 8
White-crowned Sparrow 15
Golden-crowned Sparrow 6
Red-winged Blackbird 7
House Finch 2
American Goldfinch 2

Footnotes:

[1] likely movement
[2] a hunter kept shooting at them
[3] heard only

Total number of species seen: 35

--
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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