This report was mailed for Lee Cain by http://birdnotes.net

Date: February 16, 2002
Location: Brownsmead, Clatsop County, Oregon

Evan and I drove about every passable road in the Brownsmead area to
find these birds....A GOOD day!! Evan (age 8) called in the WILSON'S
WARBLER; we both saw it at about 2 m.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Pied-billed Grebe 3
Western Grebe 1
Double-crested Cormorant 2
Great Blue Heron 6
Canada Goose 156
TUNDRA SWAN 8 (on sand bar out in river)
Mallard
Northern Shoveler 2
Northern Pintail 3
Green-Winged Teal
Ring-necked Duck 10
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup 5
Bufflehead 3
Common Merganser 2
WHITE-TAILED KITE 1 [1]
Red-tailed Hawk 2
American Kestrel 1
American Coot 2
Ring-billed Gull 1
Western Gull
Unidentified gull 45
Rock Dove 15
Belted Kingfisher 1
Northern Flicker 1
PILEATED WOODPECKER 1 [2]
Steller's Jay 7
Western Scrub-Jay 4
American Crow
Common Raven 3
Black-capped Chickadee
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Bewick's Wren 2
Winter Wren
Marsh Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
American Robin
Varied Thrush 2
European Starling
Yellow-rumped Warbler 1
WILSON'S WARBLER 1 [3]
Spotted Towhee 3
Fox Sparrow 6
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow 9
Golden-crowned Sparrow 7
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
Purple Finch 3
House Finch 3
Pine Siskin 10
House Sparrow

Footnotes:

[1] 1 adult, Pentilla Rd
[2] adult male, Pentilla Rd, vigorously chiseling an alder snag
over a slough
[3] 1 adult male, in first blackberry kack on right on Pentilla Rd;
came to pishing; fully black cap starting above eye; bright
yellow face and throat breast; greenish-yellow back; no wingbar

Total number of species seen: 53

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