Subject: Julia Butler Hansen Raptor count
Date: Dec 1 19:17:00 2002
From: Lee & Lori Cain - lcain at seasurf.net


On the way home from TG vacation, we made a quick drive through the refuge
at 1500 hrs concentrating on raptors and
waterfowl. Looked for the BLACK PHOEBE but did not find it.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Pied-billed Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Canada Goose 50 [1]
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Northern Pintail 1
Green-Winged Teal
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
WHITE-TAILED KITE 2 [2]
NORTHERN HARRIER 5
RED-SHOULDERED HAWK 1 [3]
RED-TAILED HAWK 1
Killdeer
Belted Kingfisher 2
Northern Flicker 2
Steller's Jay
American Crow
American Robin
European Starling
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Columbian white-tailed deer (15 does)

Footnotes:

[1] 2 Dusky's with white on red collars (one collar was an upright
"V" followed by a sideways "27" reading from bottom to top; the
other was an upright "9" followed by a sideways "HU" reading
from bottom to top; reported to USGS
[2] by headquarters
[3] immature, by headquarters, aggressively competing for perches with
NOHAs

Total number of species seen: 27, plus 1 deer sp.


Lee Cain
Aquatic Biology/Integrated Science
Astoria High School
Home: lcain at seasurf.net
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