Subject: [Tweeters] Breaker Lake, Pacific Co. - 4/21/2005
Date: Apr 21 19:31:24 2005
From: Mike Patterson - celata at pacifier.com


Breaker Lake, Pacific County, Washington
April 21, 2005

Weather was nice enough (a couple of showery sprinkles early).
I saw the first WILSON'S WARBLER of the season and heard a
flyover GREATER YELLOWLEGS.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Canada Goose 5 [1]
Mallard 2
Ring-necked Duck 1
Greater Yellowlegs 1 [2]
Common Snipe 1
Unidentified gull 1
Band-tailed Pigeon 8
Rufous Hummingbird 11
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 3
Steller's Jay 7
American Crow 8
Common Raven 1
Violet-green Swallow 6
Black-capped Chickadee 6
Chestnut-backed Chickadee 18
Bewick's Wren 7
Winter Wren 4
Marsh Wren 10
Golden-crowned Kinglet 10
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
American Robin 20
European Starling 4
Orange-crowned Warbler 13
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2
Common Yellowthroat 3
Wilson's Warbler 1 [3]
Fox Sparrow 5
Song Sparrow 8
White-crowned Sparrow 2
Dark-eyed Junco 1
Red-winged Blackbird 8
Brown-headed Cowbird 1
Purple Finch 10
House Finch 1
Pine Siskin 10

Footnotes:

[1] 2 on nest near st15
[2] new for location
[3] 1st detection of the year

Total number of species seen: 36

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

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