Took a trip to the Chinook Valley this morning to count
hawks. A single WHITE-TAILED KITE was visible way to the
west from Lingenfelter Rd (and more easily from the horse
pasture along Chinook Valley Rd). I also found two ROUGH-
LEGGED HAWKS one dark and one light.

White-tailed Kite 1
Bald Eagle 2
Northern Harrier 2
Red-tailed Hawk 7
Rough-legged Hawk 2 [1]

Other birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Pied-billed Grebe 1
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Canada Goose
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Dunlin 120
Mew Gull
Ring-billed Gull 1
Western Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Northern Flicker
Steller's Jay 2
American Crow
Common Raven
Bewick's Wren
Winter Wren
Marsh Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
European Starling
Spotted Towhee
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird

Footnotes:

[1] one dark phase; one light phase

Total number of species seen: 38


--
Mike Patterson
Astoria, OR
celata at pacifier.com

You've got to accentuate the positive
eliminate the negative
latch on to the affirmative
Don't mess with Mr. In-Between.
- Johnny Mercer

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