Date: October 16, 2002
Location: Hoquiam Sewage Ponds, Grays Harbor County, Washington

Temperature: 28 degrees celsius
Prevailing wind speed: 1-5 km/h gusting to: 6-11 km/h
Percentage of sky covered by clouds: 0%
Precipitation: none

Here between 1520 and 1620 on my way back to Olympia after a meeting
in Ocean Shores. The sun was low in the sky so I spent most of my
time on the south side of the lagoon. Many-to-most of the waterfowl
in their rafts were sleeping making identification difficult at best,
so I did not bother to count them.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Brown Pelican 470 [1]
Double-crested Cormorant 2
Canada Goose 38
Gadwall present [2]
Mallard Northern Shoveler present [3]
Ring-necked Duck present
American Coot 1
Unidentified gulls present
American Crow present
European Starling 100

Footnotes:

[1] Upon arrival I counted ~270; over the next hour an additional
200 flew in from the southwest. Mostly adults; ~5% juveniles.

[2] One pair for sure.

[3] The predominate Anas sp.

Total number of species seen: 11

Observations archived at http://birdnotes.net


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Douglas Canning
Olympia, Washington
dcanning at nisquallyestuary.org
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