I spent the day with David Myers helping out on the annual
Wahkiakum County NABA butterfly count. The count total was
17 species when I left, but Bob Pyle and Alan Richards were
getting ready to go look for findable misses when I left.

The best bird of the day was a singing HAMMOND'S FLYCATHCER
at a private residence above Skamakowa.

Butterflies (my day list):
Clodius Parnassian
Western Swallowtail
Pale Swallowtail
Margined White
Cabbage White
Sulfur sp.
Spring Azure
Western Meadow Fritillary
Satyr Anglewing
Painted Lady
Red Admiral
Lorquin's Admiral
Ochre Ringlet
Sonora Skipper

Birds seen in taxanomic order:
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture
Bald Eagle
Ring-billed Gull
Western Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Caspian Tern
Rufous Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Downy Woodpecker
Hammond's Flycatcher
Pacific-slope Flycatcher
Warbling Vireo
American Crow
Common Raven
Violet-green Swallow
Barn Swallow
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Swainson's Thrush
American Robin
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Common Yellowthroat
Wilson's Warbler
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Black-headed Grosbeak
Brown-headed Cowbird
Purple Finch
Red Crossbill
American Goldfinch
Evening Grosbeak


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