Fort Clatsop National Monument, Clatsop County, Oregon
Alder Creek salamander survey
February 9, 2002 1000-1200hr

Lee, Evan and Naomi Cain guided me to the spot on Alder
Creek where Park Service biologists said they caught
neotenic dicamptodon salamanders earlier this week. We
did not find any dicamps, but we did not really put in
enough time to call are search anything approaching
thorough.

We did find an interesting fungus that I had never seen
before. I've posted a picture at:
http://home.pacifier.com/~neawanna/temp/Fungus.JPG

It was in a rotting log and is hard and hollow.

Amphibians:
Western Red-backed Salamander 1
Pacific Tree Frog 1

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Pied-billed Grebe 1
Great Blue Heron 1
Canada Goose 5
Mallard 3
Greater Scaup 1
Lesser Scaup 30
Bufflehead 1
Bald Eagle 2
Red-tailed Hawk 2
Unidentified gull 1
Downy Woodpecker 2
Hutton's Vireo 1
Steller's Jay 4
American Crow 3
Common Raven 1
Black-capped Chickadee 2
Marsh Wren 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 20
American Robin 3
European Starling 13
Song Sparrow 1

Total number of species seen: 21

--
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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