Andrew & Audrey wrote:
>
> On Tuesday December 28, twenty volunteers participated in the seventh
> Wahkiakum Christmas Bird Count. The Wahkiakum Count straddles the Lower
> Columbia River, including the Julia B. Hansen and Lewis & Clark National
> Wildlife Refuges and the towns of Brownsmead, Knappa & Westport in Oregon
> and Cathlamet & Skamokawa on the Washington side. Weather was mostly clear
> and sunny, with the low temperature at about 31?F and the high in the upper
> 40's with a light east wind.
> With almost all the data in, our preliminary total is 109 species, our
> second highest total thus far. New to the count this year were Palm Warbler
> at Bug Hole in Brownsmead, Short-Eared Owl at J.B. Hansen Refuge
> Headquarters, two Mountain Chickadees (at Bayview and at the Hansen Refuge),
> Green Heron on Puget Island and a probable Townsend's Solitaire in
> Skamokawa. Other notable species were Great Egret, Brant, and Eurasian
> Wigeon. Horned Larks were found on Lark Island and Pillar Rock Island,
> islands where previous CBC's had not encountered them.
> A notable miss was Common Loon - no loons at all appeared on this year's
> count.
> Many thanks are due to all the people who helped count this year, with
> special thanks to Darrel Whipple, who again organized volunteers on the
> Oregon side.
>
> -Andrew Emlen, compiler

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