Julia Butler Hansen National Wildlife Refuge, Wahkiakum Co., WA
February 28, 2002

I had to make a trip to Skamokawa so planned for an hour at
Julia Butler Hanson Refuge. There were about 20 TREE SWALLOWS
and maybe 4 VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOWS. And there were surprisingly
few raptors.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Pied-billed Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Canada Goose
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Green-Winged Teal
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Northern Harrier
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Western Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Belted Kingfisher
Hairy Woodpecker
Steller's Jay
American Crow
TREE SWALLOWS [1]
VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOW [2]
Black-capped Chickadee
Bewick's Wren
Marsh Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
American Robin
European Starling
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
House Finch

Footnotes:

[1] mostly around the headquarters
[2] around the headquarters

Total number of species seen: 43
--
Mike Patterson
Astoria, OR
celata at pacifier.com

http://www.pacifier.com/~mpatters/bird/bird.html