Breaker Lake, Pacific County, Washington
September 7, 2004

I still haven't actually seen the bear, but I think I
was pretty close this morning. Immediately upon my
arrival at station 09, I heard a repeated "grrruph,
grrruph" for about the first minute of the timed count.
Two RUFFED GROUSE were out in the Salal and Cascara,
fattening up on berries. Surprisingly slow on the
migrant front, given the numbers we've been counting
in other places.


Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Red-throated Loon 1 [1]
Great Blue Heron 1
Wood Duck 1
Ruffed Grouse 2
Virginia Rail 1
Downy Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker 3
Hutton's Vireo 2
Warbling Vireo 1
Steller's Jay 9
American Crow 5
Common Raven 2
Barn Swallow 5
Black-capped Chickadee 24
Chestnut-backed 8
Red-breasted 2
Brown Creeper 1
Bewick's Wren 4
Winter Wren 5
Marsh Wren 6
Golden-crowned Kinglet 21
Swainson's Thrush 2
American Robin 4
European Starling 8
Cedar Waxwing 81
Blk-thr Gray Warbler 1
Dendroica sp.
Western Tanager 1
Spotted Towhee
Song Sparrow 12
White-crowned Sparrow 1
Purple Finch 2
Pine Siskin 1
American Goldfinch 1
Evening Grosbeak 8
House Sparrow 5

Footnotes:

[1] high flyover

Total number of species seen: 35
--
Mike Patterson
Astoria, OR
celata at pacifier.com

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