Subject: Another Clark County Red-shouldered Hawk
Date: Oct 19 19:20:08 2002
From: Wilson Cady - gorgebirds at juno.com


Saturday, Oct. 19, 2002
Today on the Vancouver Audubon Field Trip that I led to Lacamas
Lake followed by a quick visit to the Steigerwald Lake N.W.R. near
Washougal we came up 54 species. With the water level at Lacamas Lake
lower than anytime that I came remember during the last four decades of
visiting it there were large expanses of mud showing. This is the only
time I have found shorebirds there which included KILLDEER, GREATER
YELLOWLEGS, LEAST SANDPIPER, LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER, and WILSON'S SNIPE. A
MERLIN attempted to snatch one of the sandpipers over the lake with no
luck and a DIPPER was in the potholes below the dam.
At the Steigerwald Lake Refuge where we were checking some
habitat improvement work recently done we flushed an adult RED-SHOULDERED
HAWK from the cottonwoods along Gibbons Creek. This bird was seen flying
three times and did perch in snag in full view for a few minutes. So far
this fall Red-shouldered Hawks have been reported from both the River "S"
and Carty Units of the Ridgefield Refuge, Vancouver Lake, and now
Steigerwald Lake.
Participants on the trip were Arden and Sherry Hagen, Roger and
Ruth Phillips, Margaret Warrendorf, and Carol Watrous.

Wilson Cady
gorgebirds at juno.com