....................Sunday aft. I went driving the loop route at
Ridgefield NWR (Vanc. Wash.), and..........through the intermittent
light rain I saw:
....................2 female HARRIER HAWKS( one dining on some 'unlucky '
victim): a HARLAN'S RED-TAILED HAWK; and a second-year juvenile BALD
EAGLE; and a KESTREL 'eyeballing' a flock of geese..
....................GR. BLUE HERONS; 2 GREAT EGRETS; 80-100 noisy TUNDRA
SWANS on Rest Lake: thousands of CANADA GEESE resting and constantly
circling overhead in very , very noisy dark'clouds' ---several
subspecies---large and small....grayish and browner with a number of the
Aleutian subspecies sporting white neck rings (one wore a gold or
yellowish neck band ).
.....................Several YELLOW- RUMPED WARBLERS; A red-winged
blackbird, and a small unidentified reddish-brown wren sized bird.
.....................Then there was that lonesome KILLDEER.
And..........zillions of RING-NECK DUCKS and some RUDDY DUCKS on Rest
lake, along with PIED-BILLED GREBES, and.......................plenty of
the other more common dipping, diving, and scooping winter migrant ducks.
.....................Plenty of water around, which has a tendency to
spread out the waterfowl out more, and make it more difficult to spot
any rarer or vagrant species..

.....................Cheers......Gerald Hamilton
Brush Prairie, Wash.
gerald at e-z.net