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Date: March 22, 2004
Location: Young's Bay, Clatsop County, Oregon

Wind direction: Variable
Prevailing wind speed: < 1 km/h
Percentage of sky covered by clouds: 100%
Precipitation: haze or fog

kayaking 0800-0930 hrs, between Old and New Young's Bay Bridges

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Horned Grebe 2 [1]
Western Grebe 4
Great Blue Heron 4
Canada Goose 30
Mallard 20
Northern Pintail 4
CANVASBACK 350 [2]
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Unknown Scaup
Bufflehead
Common Merganser
Bald Eagle 3 [3]
American Coot 2
Greater Yellowlegs 1 [4]
Least Sandpiper 45 [5]
Mew Gull
Thayer's Gull
Western Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Unidentified gull
CASPIAN TERN 1 [6]
Rock Dove
Belted Kingfisher 1
Northern Flicker 1
American Crow
Tree Swallow
Bewick's Wren 1
American Robin
European Starling
Song Sparrow
House Finch 5
House Sparrow

Footnotes:

[1] basic plumage
[2] large raft of feeding birds near causeway
[3] 2 adult, one immature
[4] calling
[5] feeding on Corophium sp. on coal tar residues at old PPL power
plant site (low tide)
[6] seen and heard; first of year

Total number of species seen: 33

Lee Cain
Aquatic Biology/Integrated Science
Astoria High School
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