Breaker Lake, Pacific County, Washington
August 26, 2004

I ran across a group of 5 NORTHERN BOBWHITE near station 6
this morning. They were very tame and presumably are a very
recently released. This must be the non-native gamebird
project of the year (turkeys apparently falling out of favor?),
reports of bobwhite have come in from Lincoln, Tillamook and
Clatsop Co. in the past couple weeks.

Otherwise, pretty quiet. A single, silent OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER
and a flock of 4 BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLERS.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Double-crested Cormorant 2
Great Blue Heron 1
Canada Goose 2
Northern Bobwhite 5 [1]
Western Gull 7
Glaucous-winged Gull 6
Caspian Tern 1
Downy Woodpecker 7
Northern Flicker 1
Olive-sided Flycatcher 1 [2]
Steller's Jay 8
American Crow 2
Common Raven 1
Barn Swallow 11
swallow sp. 1
Black-capped Chickadee 6
Chestnut-backed Chickadee 10
Brown Creeper 1
Bewick's Wren 2
Winter Wren 7
Marsh Wren 5
Golden-crowned Kinglet 21
Swainson's Thrush 4
American Robin 22
European Starling 2
Cedar Waxwing 20
Orange-crowned Warbler 2
Black-throated Gray Warbler 5 [3]
Common Yellowthroat 1
Song Sparrow 3
Pine Siskin [4]

Footnotes:

[1] single, tight flock; stupidly tame; almost certainly a very
recent release. Technically off station.
[2] Technically off station
[3] 4 in one flock.
[4] Off station

Total number of species seen: 31

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

Common species are more common than rare species
--- Dennis Paulson in
_Shorebirds of the PNW_